Kenneth S. Deffeyes - Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak

Pros: good information; surprisingly engaging and readable; many pictures and graphs
Cons: I don't understand algebra; published in 2005

I can’t think of many more pressing issues facing the world than the steady decline of the world’s production of cheap, conventional oil. It has most likely begun, according to quite a few experts in the field like Kenneth S. Deffeyes who worked ...

Pros: good information
Cons: most information was hard to get into and understand

The book Beyond Oil The View From Hubert’s Peek by Kenneth S. Deffeyes, is about Hubert’s theory of the peek and fall of oil production. In 1956 Hubert used his equation Y=a mx to show his prediction of how long it would take for oil production to peek. ...