The First Law of Petropolitics
Thomas L. Friedman, despite my anger with him over the updated The World Is Flat only one year after the first run came out, has an excellent essay in Foreign Policy magazine on what he calls the First Law of Petropolitics, which is that freedom and oil prices have an inverse relationship. You may disagree with Friedman (I do on occasion), but I always find his writing and ideas engaging a the very least. I'll link to the article here, but you need to buy it off the newsstand (like I did), or be a subscriber to read the whole thing.
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