Study predicts oil demand will peak well before supplies run out

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Experts argue oil industry should be worried about a very different type of "peak oil" - peak demand

Management consultancy Arthur D Little has turned peak oil fears on their head with a report suggesting that the global economy will have begun to abandon oil well before supplies peak. The Beginning...

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