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Books : Peak Oil and Personal Preparation for ItIn association with Amazon.comby: Steven Woeste  Availability: Available for download now
Label: Amazon Manufacturer: Amazon Number Of Pages: 22 Publication Date: October 11, 2006 Publisher: Amazon Release Date: October 11, 2006 Studio: Amazon Sales Rank: 781756 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: I wrote this piece to explain to people how to safeguard themselves from different aspects of peak oil. That includes inflation, and ultimately financial (currency) collapse, shortages of water, food and fuel, and how to produce your own. The instructions for doing these things are detailed and specific, quite unlike the generic and vague advice found elsewhere. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Advice is mostly common sense, but a few useful hintsThis writeup may be helpful and perhaps a good introduction to those who are new to the topic, but most of the material presented is basic common sense and the presentation lacks necessary detail. For instance, he suggests keeping gold and silver coins in small and widely recognizable denomination which seems like common sense. There are a few tidbits of useful information (such as ready-to-eat canned bacon, the existence of which I was not aware of) but the text is not sufficiently detailed. ... Read More Rating: - 50 cents I won't have to spend after The CrashThis short piece by Woeste is only the most basic introduction to a survival manual. His ideas about silver and gold currency are the most interesting part of the paper. Otherwise he advises the reader how to horde canned food and water. The portion about growing food for survival is next to useless. A few short paragraphs advise the reader to get bagged dirt from Big Lots and grow "dwarf varieties" of tomatoes in 18 gallon tubs. Worst of all he directs the reader to an ornamental ... Read More Rating:  - Intriguing ideasDr. Woeste (an emerging science fiction novelist and molecular biologist) turns his focus to the question of survival in a post-oil world. His focus is not national or international activism and/or research into alternative energies (this has been and should continue to be debated elsewhere), but the question of what individuals can do if "the worst" happens and society collapses due to resource depletion. The questions he raises I personally find fascinating, and somewhat reflective of the 1960's ... Read More Rating:  - Swaim Missed the PointA agree with reviewer Swaim that "Peak Oil and Personal Preparation for It" does not address energy needs in a species-wide, we-are-all-in-this-together way. "Peak Oil and Personal Preparation for It" also does not include instructions for operating a radio telescope or instructions for programming in FORTRAN. However, "Peak Oil and Personal Preparation for It" does not promise to do any of these things. "Peak Oil and Personal Preparation for It" is held out as one point of view about ... Read More Rating: - Review Posted Is From Jim Otis - The Optimist I think this short delivers substantial value by focusing reader attention on the problems related to peak oil and solutions that individuals can do for themselves. Swaim must really be attached to the 49 cents he paid for this if he cannot find value here. I was actually disappointed after getting this based on Swaim's review. Swaim led me to believe that I would learn something helpful about hoarding gold and silver, but Woeste's short has nothing like that. Woeste does recommend buying precious ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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