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Simmons published his book in June 2005, and according to Google Trends searches for the phrase “peak oil” peaked in August 2005, but spiked again 2006 and 2008 when oil prices jumped: (Click ...
A decade ago, the media was filled with stories about peak oil, numerous books were published on the subject (such as Half Gone and $20 a Gallon!), and even the Simpsons mentioned it in an episode ...
(See my book The Peak Oil Scare if you want the full treatment.) Now, the news is highlighting various predictions that the pandemic will accelerate the point at which global oil demand peaks, ...
Welcome the new four horsemen of the apocalypse: climate, war, peak oil and cancer. ... Or, as I interpreted it in my book, "Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle": ...
Oil's dramatic price changes seem baffling. In mid-2014, crude prices averaged around $100 a barrel; now, they're ...
Toward the end of “The Quest,” his sprawling book on energy, Daniel Yergin introduces an obscure 19th-century character named Sadi Carnot.
In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a US geoscientist working for fossil fuel giant Shell, projected — based on statistical modeling of ...
The titles include Peak Oil and the Second Great Depression, Peak Oil Survival and When Oil Peaked. When those books were written, worldwide oil drillers were producing about 85 million barrels a day.
Remember peak oil? It’s the theory—current about a decade ago—that global oil production would soon top out, leading to an inexorable rise in prices. Reports and books painted a grim picture ...
Professor Deffeyes talked about his book [Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak], published by Hill and Wang. In 2001, he was among the first to warn of the upcoming oil crisis using techniques ...
The debate now centers not on if but when peak demand arrives. By at least one oil company's reckoning, it may already be upon us, but in any event, the era of declining oil consumption is in ...
Editor’s Note: David Frum, a CNN contributor, is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is the author of eight books, including a new novel, “Patriots,” and a post ...