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Oil Is the Wedge That Could Knock Over the World
What’s happening to oil now will affect us for decades.
The silence of the oil wells.
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It’s pretty tough for the average humanoid to get too worked up about oil prices collapsing. Oh no, gas will be cheap, and oil companies and brutal dictatorships will go broke? How do we stop it, asked no one ever.