Victoria Johnson

Our dependence on oil puts a glass ceiling on economic recovery

The era of cheap oil is rapidly coming to an end, ushering in ‘economic peak oil’ – the point at which the cost of incremental supply exceeds the price economies can pay without significantly disrupting economic activity at a given point in time.

November 12, 2012

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