Oil and Politics Really Don’t Mix
Whatever the twists and turns are in global politics, whatever the ebb of imperial power and the flow of national pride, one trend in the decades following World War II progressed in a straight and rapidly ascending line -- the consumption of oil. If it can be said, in the abstract, that the sun energized the planet, it was oil that now powers its human population, both in its familiar forms as fuel and in the proliferation of new petrochemical products. -- Daniel Yergin, 1992 Oil is the undisputed King, in a world preoccupied with the consumption of its natural…