Boundaries Quote by Michael Kumhof

A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have…

— William J. Clinton

“Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond,…

— Albert Marrin

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

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 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

There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the…

— Fatih Birol

...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and…

— Richard Heinberg

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

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly…

— Sylvia Earle

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields.…

— Jane Jacobs

The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical…

— Josh Tickell

“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum has now…

— Jane Brox