TY  - BOOK
AU  - Inman,Mason
TI  - The oracle of oil: a maverick geologist's quest for a sustainable future 
SN  - 9780393239683
AV  - TN869.2.H83 I56 2016
U1  - 553.2/8092B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
KW  - Hubbert, M. King
KW  - Petroleum geologists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Petroleum reserves
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Hubbert peak theory
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Energy
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Geology
KW  - fast
KW  - Erdölversorgung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Erdölproduktion
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chicago, 1923-1929 -- New York City and Washington, DC, 1930-1943 -- Houston, 1943-1956 -- Mouston, Texas, and Washington, DC, 1956-1973 -- Washington, DC, 1973-1989 -- Epilogue, 1990-2015
N2  - 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 stretching over decades, Hubbert defended his forecasts against opponents from both the oil industry and government. Hubbert was proved largely correct during the energy crises of the 1970s and hailed as a "prophet" and an "oracle." Even amid our twenty-first-century fracking boom, Hubbert's underlying logic holds true, while remaining a source of debate and controversy. Hubbert emerges as an unapologetic iconoclast who championed sustainability through his lifelong quest to wean the United States -- and the wider world -- off fossil fuels, as well as by questioning the pursuit of never-ending growth
ER  -