I definitely take your point, Italian Guy, but It's a funny thing.
When I started out in the oil business, 15 years or so ago, it was kind of un-sexy. Bankers were the people who controlled the world back then, before all that developing country debt started to unravel. Then telecoms and information technology industries were the movers and shakers: until along came the dot-com crash.
But the truth is, oil has always been the big news. There is nothing else on the planet that will let you propel a half-tonne of metal down the highway faster than a bird can fly, for 6 cents a mile. Before tax, anyway. The kind of power this grants is so amazing everyone wants a part of it: the first ambition anyone has, anywhere in the world, is to drive an automobile. Or to fly, or to drive a tank, or a locomotive, maybe a motorcycle. Or an earth-mover... whatever.
People fight over it, and it's the oil itself which (literally) fuels the wars. Tanks go nowhere without fuel and lubricants. Planes sit on the ground. But whatever people say, the climate is changing, the cities are smogging up, and getting the stuff from where it is found to where it is used means doing all kinds of deals.
It's interesting to be a part of it, but there will be tears before bedtime, for sure. And the way I see it, we will all need a wide circle of friends when that time comes
