Reply #12: The now five-year YOY decline in oil production, which will only accelerate

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absent oil discoveries totaling two or three Saudi Arabias, will see to it that China's automobile explosion will be a dud at best. Indeed, Chinese enthusiasm for a western lifestyle will accelerate oil depletion even as China continues securing oil the old fashioned way, by donning business suits instead of uniforms, by getting on passenger airliners instead of military transports, and by negotiating business contracts instead of blasting brown people in the ass with DU rounds.