The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future
By Mason Inman
Hardcover
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By Mason Inman
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The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil."
In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since. Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped a bombshell on his audience: U.S. oil production would peak by 1970 and decline steadily thereafter. World production would follow the same fate, reaching its peak soon after the turn of the millennium. In battles stret...






















