The Oracle of Oil: Review
A review of Mason Inman’s timely new book, The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist’s Quest for a Sustainable Future.
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Peak Oil? Life of M. King Hubbert
The man and the movment: Is it dead?
Note to Bernie Sanders: Something is More Than Rotten in the State of Denmark, and Peak Oil is Coming to Take it Away
Denmark is often lauded as a kind of social utopia. But perhaps we should start thinking about what the end of cheap and plentiful energy-dense fossil fuels might have in store for such platitudes.
This is Peak Oil
In the last press review of 2015 I asked if that had been the year petroleum peaked.
The Real Oil Limits Story; what other researchers missed
The underlying assumption in peak oil models is that scarcity would appear before the final cutoff of consumption.
The Peak Oil Dilemma
Peak oil, as a theory, has been downplayed, because models predicted that we’d hit peak oil production between 2000 and 2010, and we didn’t–instead, we plateaued.
M. King Hubbert: The Limits To Oil
Chris talks with Mason Inman about his new book The Oracle Of Oil, the first in-depth biography of M. King Hubbert, to learn more about the genesis of the Peak Oil theory.
Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does it Mean for Climate Change?
This session seeks to bring together fossil fuel experts and climate experts for a daring exploration of the new landscape created by fracking and other unconventional methods of fossil fuel recovery.
We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It?
It’s not looking good for the global fossil fuel industry. Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas—which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs—the industry is rapidly crumbling.
A Personal Appreciation of M. King Hubbert
A recent vacation afforded me the opportunity to read The Oracle of Oil, Mason Inman’s excellent new biography of Marion King Hubbert.
Review: The Oracle of Oil by Mason Inman
The focal point of The Oracle of Oil is Hubbert’s distinction as the first person to recognize the phenomenon of peak oil.
The Oracle of Oil
Many have heard of peak oil, but few seem to understand what it really means, and fewer still know much of anything about the father of the idea, M. King Hubbert.