The Times' John Tierney proposed a bet (
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/opinion/23tierney.html) with "Twilight in the Desert" author Matthew Simmons that the price of oil would not increase faster than wages:
"I proposed to him a bet using what Julian considered the best measure of a resource's value: how it compares with the average worker's wage. I offered to bet that the price of oil would not rise faster than the average wage, meaning that future workers would be able to afford oil more easily than they could today."
And he says he's willing to extend this challenge to anybody else who wants to take it. Will you?
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