Resources For:

1. "L'Origine Du Petrole" by Dmitri Mendeleev, November 3rd, 1877.

2. "The History of the Standard Oil Company" by Ida M. Tarbell, 1904. (Note: this is a large 13 MB, 468 page pdf file).

3. 1988 US Congress Hearing on Greenhouse Effect & Global Climate Change. (On p.40 in the pdf file p.37 in the document, mentions Senator Max Baucus' suggestion of a carbon dioxide tax).

4. M. King Hubbert's 1956 paper. "Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels." (On p.31-35 in the pdf file Hubbert incorrectly states the peak production of oil in the US is between 1965-1970, and in 2000 for world oil production).