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This site is an online tribute to one of America's greatest thinkers and scientists, M. King Hubbert (1903-1989).  The tribute commemorates the 50 year anniversary of Hubbert's seminal speech in 1956 when he predicted that U.S. oil production would peak within 10-15 years.  When oil did in fact peak in 1970, Hubbert enjoyed several years of acclaim and public attention during the mid to late 1970s.  Hubbert's calculations indicated that world oil peak would occur around 2000. 

Hubbert's groundbreaking work, however, extended well beyond his work on energy resources.  At his memorial, the Geological Society of America said "there was not a geologist, hydrologist, geophysicist, petroleum engineer, or mineral economist in the entire world that was not deeply in his debt."  In his latter years, Hubbert spoke out about the incompatibility of the science of matter and energy and our exponential growth culture, especially with respect to the world's burgeoning population and debt-based monetary systems.

In the 1980s, the then elderly Hubbert was cast out of the limelight as Reagan ushered in a new dawn on America and oil prices plummeted. Since the late 1990s, Hubbert has become somewhat of a cult hero for the global peak oil movement.  

The purpose of this tribute is to raise awareness of and celebrate Hubbert's accomplishments, so that industrial society can better understand the contemporary significance of his work.