World Trade Center, said in a 1998 interview that he believed that Oil Prices, then trading at around $11 a barrel should … ideally trade at around $144 a barrel. Oil touched around $144 a barrel in June 2008. At this price, the world would be paying … formation of Organisation of Petroleum Importing Countries (OPIC) in 2002. This idea becomes much more imminent in these …

This article examines the future of our petroleum-based economy in light of the voluminous debates over Peak Oil and …: First, the "true" Peak Oil debate about when world-wide, long-term oil production will follow the downward slope of the … 2003; and third, the long-term national security implications of the Western world's increasing dependence on oil and …