| Peak Oil Quotes |
My Father rode a camel. I drive a car. My Son flies a jet plane. His son will ride a camel.
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
-- Ludwig Boltzman
Oil has literally made foreign and security policy for decades. Just since the turn of this century, it has provoked the division of the Middle East after World War I; aroused Germany and Japan to extend their tentacles beyond their borders; the Arab Oil Embargo; Iran versus Iraq; the Gulf War. This is all clear.
-- Bill Richardson
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist
-- Kenneth Boulding
The situation is desperate. This is the world's biggest serious question.
-- Matt Simmons, George Bush Energy Advisor 2003
America faces a major energy supply crisis over the next two decades. The failure to meet this challenge will threaten our nation's economic prosperity, compromise our national security, and literally alter the way we lead our lives.
-- Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham
Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are convenient to that end and will seek to justify them by the most plausible arguments they are able to devise.
-- Reinhold Neibuhr
Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil production would "peak" and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of the year 2000. Moreover, no renewable energy systems have the potential to generate more than a tiny fraction of the power now being generated by fossil fuels. In short, the end of oil signals the end of civilization, as we had known it.
-- Jay Hanson
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
We can't conserve our way to energy independance, nor can we conserve our way to having enough energy available. So we've got to do both.
-- George W Bush
By the time you get to about 2015 you reach the point where demand is far outstripping production, by several million barrels a day. Prices will go through the roof, and this will absolutely kill economies in the process. It's inevitable...the only question is how much the world will come together to manage the transition.
-- Jamal Qureshi
Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a two-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.
-- George Carlin
The problem is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.
-- Dave Barry
I have for years described two camps: the economists who told us that technology would always produce new supply and the pessimists or Cassandras who told us that peak was coming in maybe fifteen or twenty years. We may be finding out that we went over the peak in 2000. That makes both camps wrong.
-- Matthew Simmons
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