Michael Meacher says that the fuss over Ukraine was about the geopolitics of oil, and the growing conflict between the US and China http://i.am/jah/horse.htm#1917

Yes, our man (Yushchenko) and our system (democracy) won in Ukraine, and once again good triumphed over bad. Yet this presentation, so characteristic of the Western media, misses the point about what the struggle is really about. http://i.am/jah/democra.htm

Oil and gas running out much faster than expected, says study
By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor 02 October 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=449053

World oil and gas supplies are heading for a "production crunch" sometime
between 2010 and 2020 when they cannot meet supply, because global reserves
are 80 per cent smaller than had been thought, new forecasts suggest.