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The markets and the business press are waking up to peak oil
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I am right in thinking that it was at best a second or third order effect of the oil shocks though? Inflation leading to industrial unrest?
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from what I remember yes, although I remember it being said to show the necessity of reform, etc. etc. and has been used ever since as a stick to beat the unions with.
Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
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