Natural Gas, Fueling An Economic Revolution

Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Thu, 03/29/2012 - 9:44am

No one could have predicted that oil prices would rise to today’s levels. Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, says they are irrationally high, pointing out that world demand is lower than the available supply and that Saudi oil inventories around the world are largely untapped. The “irrational” cause, of course, is fear of a war with Iran.

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