History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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…
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 …
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. - M. King Hubbert
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or t… - M. King Hubbert
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or t…
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