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Slugcatcher on the IEA's exciting but dangerous future

EVERYONE knows that oil and water do not mix, but neither do oil and politics, and it’s politics which is behind Slugcatcher’s prediction of an oil price of US$200 a barrel sooner rather than later thanks to a politically created oil shortage.

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Slugcatcher on the IEA's exciting but dangerous future

The root cause of that forecast is last week's remarkable demand from the International Energy Agency that oil and gas exploration and project development be stopped so the world can achieve net zero carbon...

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