Tag Archives: Hubbert’s Peak

What Peak Oilers Won’t Tell You About Peak Oil

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Steve Maley

M. King Hubbert is the father of Peak Oil theory. In a 1956, he paper correctly called the timing of the peak in U.S. crude oil production in the early 1970s. Neo-Malthusians and Progressives make sure you know about Hubbert’s … Continue reading →

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Hubbert’s Peak or Yergin’s Plateau?

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Steve Maley

In 1956, Shell geologist M. King Hubbert correctly predicted that oil production in the United States would reach a peak around 1970. Since his Peak Oil theory fits so well with the Malthusian worldview of “Progressives”, anti-capitalists and anarchists, Hubbert … Continue reading →

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