Deconstructing Daniel Yergin, the ‘Energy Pope’

Sooner or later, proponents of peak oil inevitably run up against Daniel Yergin, who Der Spiegel in a July 16, 2006, article entitled “The War over Resources: Energy Security Will Be one of the Main Challenges of Foreign Policy” says “has been known as the ‘Energy Pope’ since the 1991 publication of his book ‘The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power,’ which won him a Pulitzer Prize.”

In this recent interview, Mr. Yergin makes a number of statements that deserve close scrutiny.

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