has long been the biggest excuse to do nothing, with their cornucopian forecasts, but they have steadily moved closer to being "strident" (see my various articles in the Countdown series), and are now in a year-long campaign to leak the fact that their November Outlook Report will be substantially different and will flag, essentially, that the party is over and that we will never have the volumes of oil that everybody seems to be expecting in the next decade.

So it is that movement that needs to be listened to.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes