Peak Oil
Reggie Koch
Professor Metcalf
English 100
11-14-2007
The Beginning of the End of Oil
The end of oil can mean an end to a lot of things in an industrialized lifestyle that we live in today. With more than 60% of the world passed their peak, this puts United States at a great risk because the U.S. alone uses more than 25% of the world’s oil. According to Tom Whipple, “Americans have consumed an average of 9.3 million barrels of gasoline a day so far this year, an increase of 0.6 percent from last year” (Whipple). In 1956, a man by the name of Dr. Marion King Hubbert, who worked as a geologist for Shell, came up with “Hubbert’s Peak.” Hubbert’s Peak is Dr. Hubbert’s theory, which he accurately predicted, that U.S. domestic oil production would peak in 1970 (Deffeyes 2). Some people didn’t believe in Dr. Hubbert’s Peak theory. They saw it as just a “theory.” Most people now feel that Dr. Hubbert make a good point and believe that the world is coming to an......
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