“When the oil runs out, or the world evolves beyond an oil-based economy, many of the Gulf capitals will probably resemble not Las Vegas but Bodie, California—a former desert boomtown that dried up when its mines closed and the capital fled.”
I hope I live long enough to see the M.E. thrown back 150 years through time in the span of a single generation. That will stop most of the terrorism and the cult of Islam as well.
Excellent article.
I see that you're one optimistic, as well as mad puppy. I think that when the oil runs out, they'll be pushed much farther than 150 years back.