Earth Quote by M. King Hubbert

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning…

— Lester R. Brown

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive…

— Dennis Weaver

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took…

— Rex Tillerson

...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless,…

— Peter Lesley

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

— Harold Hamm

The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The…

— David Deming

Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to…

— Jack Edwards

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

— Barack Obama

Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of…

— James R. Schlesinger

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave…

— James Buchan

Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what…

— Hugo Chavez

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable…

— Tim Holden