{"id":930,"date":"2014-12-11T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2014-12-11T21:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:45:35","slug":"the-dying-gasp-of-the-oil-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-dying-gasp-of-the-oil-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dying Gasp of The Oil Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/how-solar-power-could-slay-the-fossil-fuel-empire-by-2030\">How Solar Power Could Slay the Fossil Fuel Empire by 2030<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What we are seeing are exponential improvements in the efficiency of solar, the cost of solar, and the installation of solar. \u201cPut these numbers together and you find that solar has improved its cost basis by 5,355 times relative to oil since 1970,\u201d Seba said. \u201cTraditional sources of energy can\u2019t compete with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite decades of petrochemical \u00a0propaganda, the Oil Age is ending with a whimper, not a bang.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0decades of lies to make us believe that WE\u00a0NEED OIL\u00a0to survive, and therefore must do everything we can to protect \u201ccheap\u201d foreign oil by maintaining\u00a0the largest military in the world, propping up third world dictatorships, and torturing anybody who doesn\u2019t blindly support those dictatorships, the truth is now clear to all but the most corrupt fools.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if we had actually followed the advice of\u00a0President Carter, who installed solar panels on the White House in 1979 and wanted to end our dependence on petroleum, instead of diving head first into the Oil Wars of President Reagan, who removed those solar panels in 1986 and sold our country to the Military Industrial Oil Complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Solar Power Could Slay the Fossil Fuel Empire by 2030 What we are seeing are exponential improvements in the efficiency of solar, the cost of solar, and the installation of solar. \u201cPut these numbers together and you find that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-dying-gasp-of-the-oil-age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}