I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because… — Robert Bryce Copy Share Image
Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to… — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in… — Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari Copy Share Image
Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image