September 2010
Columns
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The untimely passing of Matt Simmons last month brought an end to one of the most original and controversial energy “insiders” (see “Innovative thinkers,” p. 21). Simmons, a regular contributor to this magazine since the early 1990s, did not coin the term “peak oil”—that distinction goes to visionary geologist M. King Hubbert—but he brought the expression back into the journalistic mainstream.
