In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on ren…

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea explorati…

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great D…

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war…

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes