The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future [Hardcover]

The Oracle?of Oil?is a masterful telling of?Hubberts life and ideas, written?by journalist Mason Inman,?a knowledgeable and graceful?storyteller.[Inmans] sympathetic but clear-sighted portrayal is. . . a fascinating read.In Hubberts story, Inman has found a meditation on the booms and busts that marked twentieth-century economic growth. . . . In writing the first biography of Hubbert, Inman has retrieved, if not rescued, the story of a scientist who has much to offer to todays energy conundrum.Inman paints a well-researched, well-written portrait of a driven and gifted scientist who stood up to politicians and oil conglomerates alike. The Oracle of Oil provides a compelling perspective on what Hubbert might have called society's fossil fuel folly.Visionaries invariably fascinate us, but this engaging biography of a prophetic oil geologist, M. King Hubbert, is more than just an absorbing read: It reveals wise insight into how we might still turn our reckless slide down the back side of Hubbert's infamous peak into a reasonably soft landing.An instructive account of the power of groupthink and the value of independent minds.This is a remarkable account of a remarkable manand for that matter of a remarkable moment in American history, when we began to realize there were limits to our endless expansion.The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the father of peak oil.