“So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be.” MayLongMatterUsedEnergyGreaterSourceCostNo Matter WhatProductionsOilCeaseMonetaryBarrelsRecoveringOil Production Author:M. King Hubbert
“Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.” HeartAmericaEnergyBreakThousandModelsConstitutionInstitutionsCeaseDemonCracksMudStrainFoldsBragPython Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.” MenShouldMindBelieveHas BeensStillsImportantMatterSeemsAgePastEnergyWealthMiddleConcernConcernedEconomicsDebateCeasePrimariesMeaninglessControversyExclusiveMiddle AgesTheologicalGrown ManPolitics And Economics Author:Arthur C. Clarke