It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil… - M. King Hubbert
So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil…
- M. King Hubbert
It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up. - M. King Hubbert
Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know. - M. King Hubbert
Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two… - M. King Hubbert
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two…
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources. - M. King Hubbert
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of … - M. King Hubbert
It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of …
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-gro… - M. King Hubbert
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-gro…
Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothin… - M. King Hubbert
Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothin…
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. - M. King Hubbert
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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