Peak Oil
World | 2006
Is the age of cheap oil about to come to an end? According to many experts, we are about to reach the point of "peak oil" - the level at which supply can no longer keep up with demand. This, say the doomsayers, could send economies spinning into turmoil and up-end our comfortable, urban lifestyles. But others claim predictions like this are simply scaremongering. They believe supply will match d…