Syriana is an endlessly fascinating movie about oil and money, America and China, traders and spies, the Persian Gulf states and Texas, reform and revenge, bribery and betrayal. Its interlocking stories come down to one thing: There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead.
This turned out to be false. Population declines in the developed world (and the third of the developing world that is China) are cutting down oil use quite a bit. I'm amazed the propaganda in 2005 was so strong. Pat Buchanan was predicting this back in 2001.
