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    Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage - New Edition

    By Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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    In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Deffeyes's claim echoed the work of geophysicist M. King Hubbert, who in 1956 predicted that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970.


    In this updated edition of Hubbert's Peak, Deffeyes explains the crisis that few now deny we are headed toward. Using geology and economics, he shows how everything from the rising price of groceries to the subprime mortgage crisis has been exacerbated by the shrinking supply--and growing price--of oil. Although there is no easy solution to these problems, Deffeyes argues that the first step is understanding the trouble that we are in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateSep 29, 2008
    ISBN9781400829071
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    Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage - New Edition
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    Kenneth S. Deffeyes

    Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a former researcher for Shell Oil Company and author of When Oil Peaked and Beyond Oil, is emeritus professor of geology at Princeton University.

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      Comprehensive and detailed, sometimes even down to industry anecdotes, it reviews oil and adjacent fossil fuel areas in historical and industry segment perspectives. With numerous illustrations, schemes and facts enlisted, author gives no single gap on one single message - peak oil has started and now we are on the way down. And then suddenly he pushes reader into hands of nuclear energy lobby like if nuclear *fuel* rods are not excavated from ground only once and arguments both laughable and sketchy - you can't teach old geologist for new tricks. Book leaves mixed feeling of love and hate: probably the best explanation of why peak oil has started and where we are going with it, and then all of sudden stripping off all future and tossing back to square one. Yet marked good as this probably the only 100% honest petroleum engineer/geologist/economist/scientist book on peak oil, just skip ending about kiss-your-nuclear-energy.