Pardon My Politics

The world has grown a dis­turb­ing ad­dic­tion for oil. Many oil fields around the world are head­ed for de­ple­tion. Na­tion­al statis­tics are un­re­li­able at best, or clas­si­fied at worst, and na­tion­al oil com­pa­nies con­trol up to 80 per­cent of oil and nat­u­ral gas re­serves.