Peak Oil or not, we can no longer rely on cheap oil

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by Greg Gordon, N&O Washington Bureau -- 11/25/2005
"'Whatever you think about peak oil,' Woolsey said, 'you need to be concerned about the possibility that in the very near term at any point, ... regime change, government policy change or terrorist attacks could put a major, and perhaps even a long-duration spike on oil prices. ... We need to move away from oil in either case.'"