Michael Klare on a Saudi Bombshell

And if you don’t quite recognize the new look of this fast-shifting energy landscape, then how are you going to feel if the Age of Petroleum turns out to be drawing — more rapidly than most people imagine — to a close?

Well, hold your hats, folks. Below Michael Klare, an expert on “resource wars” and the author of the indispensable Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency, discusses a new bombshell book by oil industry insider Matthew Simmons, and his unsettling news that everything you’ve heard about those inexhaustible supplies of Saudi oil, which are supposed to keep the world floating for decades, simply isn’t so. This is real news and absorbing its implications is no small matter.
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