...Peak. Hubbert turns out to have been a fairly savvy forecaster; the more data the oil industry gets, the more the data confirm Hubbert's Peak. In fact, the algorithm Hubbert used to describe the world's oil production turns out to be pretty much spot-on for just about any finite resource--even Atlantic Salmon stocks.

A graphic description of Hubbert's ideas, known as Hubbert's Curve, shows how Hubbert's predictions match the oil production data (see Figure). According...

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