A Growing Global Power Crisis Looks to be Greater Danger Than Oil

How many stories have you seen about high oil and gasoline prices? Now how many have you seen about global electricity shortages?

Lost in all the attention oil is receiving, reports from around the world indicate that 100 or more countries may be suffering, many acutely, from shortages of electricity. Given who is in trouble, both the economic and the political danger of this growing global power crisis are starting to look greater than oil


China and India, two of the biggest engines of economic growth, look to be in serious trouble. Pakistan and Afghanistan, hotbeds of terrorism, are routinely plunged into darkness. South Africa