M. King Hubbert Quotes
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.
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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 energy resources.