Now that oil is over $100 per barrel, many believe that it will peak as soon as 2012. Doomsayers will have you believe that life will be radically different as the world begins to run out of oil.
Instead, the world will gradually get used to more expensive oil. As this happens, the balance of economic power will gradually shift to those who control oil - and those who learn to live with less of it.
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