Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Born	1931
Nationality	United States
Occupation	geologist, author, professor
Title	Professor Emeritus

Kenneth S. Deffeyes is a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert, the creator of the Hubbert peak theory, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston, Texas. Deffeyes holds a B.S. in petroleum geology from the Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University, studying under F.B. van Houten. In 1967 he began teaching at Princeton, where he is now professor emeritus. He claims Chickasaw ancestry.

In John McPhee's 1981 book Basin and Range, about the origin of Basin and Range topography, Deffeyes teaches geology to McPhee and his readers by analyzing road cuts and the exposed geologic strata that resulted from the construction of Interstate highway 80.

He is the author of Hubbert's Peak, published in 2001. In 2005 he published the book Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert's peak. On February 11, 2006 Deffeyes claimed that world oil production had peaked on December 16, 2005.^[1]

Quotes

• "Crude oil is much too valuable to be burned as a fuel."
• "The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground."

See also

Other peak oil educators

• Jean Laherrère
• Dale Allen Pfeiffer

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• Deffeyes peak oil site at Princeton
• Deffeyes biography page at Princeton
• American Journal of Physics review of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
• GRIST review of Beyond Oil - The view from Hubbert's peak

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