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This reviewer does not invest in the stock market and is not qualified to comment on investment advice.

I've glanced at books by Eddie Hobbs in the past and thought that the man did not seem in touch with normal people in the real world. For instance, he wrote about buying your home out in five years by making instant coffee at work instead of buying designer takeaways coffees, sitting in with a video instead of eating out, and putting this money into early mortgage repayment. Anyone I know with a mortgage to be saved for or paid off, has put food and entertainment at the very bottom of the priority list, eating, in my case, a sack of potatoes with a little cheese or butter throughout the winter. Drink is too expensive (and lemonade in pubs doubly so) so the young person with a mortgage does not socialise except in home parties.

Unless of course, if they were a stock investor or banker perhaps, the kind who thought the market would never crash and their bonuses, cars and homes would keep getting bigger. Maybe the author was mixing with this kind of home owner.

On to this book in which the author has survived the crash and has only now woken up to what the sane and sensible world, and the ESB in Ireland in particular, has been telling him for forty years. Energy is expensive, oil more so, and we don't have much of it in Ireland. We get a swift recap of the 1970s oil crisis when OPEC decided to turn off the tap and put up the price. There is a reasonable breakdown of different kinds of fuels, where they come from and why we use them. And yes, we are running out of the fossil fuels. Fast.

As the author says, just because there is oil left does not mean it is easy or cheap to extract. The easy stuff has been used. This has supported population growth, trade and agriculture. This has also caused immense pollution and added carbon to the atmosphere, warming the planet. He supports investing in the extremely deep sea drilling rig companies - which were prohibited from drilling in American waters until Bush lifted the ban, something not mentioned. Oh, but this book was written before the Deepwater Horizon rig failure, which exploded immense amounts of oil through the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, it was foreseeable, when environmental protection groups had lobbies against this kind of drilling and the company's safety record was poor, with its employees getting killed even on land.

What seems to me to have happened, is that the Spirit of Ireland developers came to the author and told him about Ireland's energy squeeze and their plan to provide power, and he woke up to this critical factor in our present and future. Spirit of Ireland is mentioned several times, even barely in context. Another item we are going to run out of worldwide is water. Many major rivers no longer reach the sea. Hobbs gives water a passing nod, along with mentions of biofuels, solar and wind power. Also trains instead of cars. He also advises speculating in shares of companies developing clean energy and energy-efficient tech. This is his best advice, as far as I am concerned, though he cautions that some are tech still in development and may take a long time to show return or may be superseded by better solutions.

What astonishes me is that this bright man doesn't tell people that the soundest advice is to withdraw money from pension funds that will only be charging commission each year for the privilege of investing in the arms trade and then showing a loss when you want to claim. Put the money into future proofing your house instead.

Don't live on a flood plain or sea front. Put wraparound insulation, deep attic insulation and high-spec double glazing in place. There are grants for this kind of work, though not the glazing. Update your heating system for efficiency and in my case, burn wood. Ireland is not going to run out of wood. Donegal is a forestry-fuel paradise. Replace old appliances as they fail with the highest efficiency rating ones you can buy. This includes LED lightbulbs. If you have a plasma screen TV, replace it now with LED and save an absolute fortune on your electricity bill. Washing machines and dishwashers use a lot of water so that is an efficiency factor too. And keep an eye on solar panels, which may be a good buy for your home now, warming water, and will get better every year.

Also, walk anywhere you can, and drive a diesel instead of petrol. If all Ireland's car owners changed them for diesels we would meet our Kyoto targets overnight. Biodiesel is coming. Diesels, slightly adjusted, can even be run on recycled chip pan fat, which can't be said about petrol cars. Electric cars too are coming. That's how I believe we should get started to survive and prosper in the age of scarcity.


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Energise How To Survuve And Prosper In The Age Of Prosperity Eddie Hobbs 9781844882304 Books Reviews

This reviewer does not invest in the stock market and is not qualified to comment on investment advice.

I've glanced at books by Eddie Hobbs in the past and thought that the man did not seem in touch with normal people in the real world. For instance, he wrote about buying your home out in five years by making instant coffee at work instead of buying designer takeaways coffees, sitting in with a video instead of eating out, and putting this money into early mortgage repayment. Anyone I know with a mortgage to be saved for or paid off, has put food and entertainment at the very bottom of the priority list, eating, in my case, a sack of potatoes with a little cheese or butter throughout the winter. Drink is too expensive (and lemonade in pubs doubly so) so the young person with a mortgage does not socialise except in home parties.

Unless of course, if they were a stock investor or banker perhaps, the kind who thought the market would never crash and their bonuses, cars and homes would keep getting bigger. Maybe the author was mixing with this kind of home owner.

On to this book in which the author has survived the crash and has only now woken up to what the sane and sensible world, and the ESB in Ireland in particular, has been telling him for forty years. Energy is expensive, oil more so, and we don't have much of it in Ireland. We get a swift recap of the 1970s oil crisis when OPEC decided to turn off the tap and put up the price. There is a reasonable breakdown of different kinds of fuels, where they come from and why we use them. And yes, we are running out of the fossil fuels. Fast.

As the author says, just because there is oil left does not mean it is easy or cheap to extract. The easy stuff has been used. This has supported population growth, trade and agriculture. This has also caused immense pollution and added carbon to the atmosphere, warming the planet. He supports investing in the extremely deep sea drilling rig companies - which were prohibited from drilling in American waters until Bush lifted the ban, something not mentioned. Oh, but this book was written before the Deepwater Horizon rig failure, which exploded immense amounts of oil through the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, it was foreseeable, when environmental protection groups had lobbies against this kind of drilling and the company's safety record was poor, with its employees getting killed even on land.

What seems to me to have happened, is that the Spirit of Ireland developers came to the author and told him about Ireland's energy squeeze and their plan to provide power, and he woke up to this critical factor in our present and future. Spirit of Ireland is mentioned several times, even barely in context. Another item we are going to run out of worldwide is water. Many major rivers no longer reach the sea. Hobbs gives water a passing nod, along with mentions of biofuels, solar and wind power. Also trains instead of cars. He also advises speculating in shares of companies developing clean energy and energy-efficient tech. This is his best advice, as far as I am concerned, though he cautions that some are tech still in development and may take a long time to show return or may be superseded by better solutions.

What astonishes me is that this bright man doesn't tell people that the soundest advice is to withdraw money from pension funds that will only be charging commission each year for the privilege of investing in the arms trade and then showing a loss when you want to claim. Put the money into future proofing your house instead.

Don't live on a flood plain or sea front. Put wraparound insulation, deep attic insulation and high-spec double glazing in place. There are grants for this kind of work, though not the glazing. Update your heating system for efficiency and in my case, burn wood. Ireland is not going to run out of wood. Donegal is a forestry-fuel paradise. Replace old appliances as they fail with the highest efficiency rating ones you can buy. This includes LED lightbulbs. If you have a plasma screen TV, replace it now with LED and save an absolute fortune on your electricity bill. Washing machines and dishwashers use a lot of water so that is an efficiency factor too. And keep an eye on solar panels, which may be a good buy for your home now, warming water, and will get better every year.

Also, walk anywhere you can, and drive a diesel instead of petrol. If all Ireland's car owners changed them for diesels we would meet our Kyoto targets overnight. Biodiesel is coming. Diesels, slightly adjusted, can even be run on recycled chip pan fat, which can't be said about petrol cars. Electric cars too are coming. That's how I believe we should get started to survive and prosper in the age of scarcity.