Whistleblower: World Running Out of Oil Faster Than IEA Says
November 13th, 2009 admin
According to two unnamed sources as reported in the Guardian —one current International Energy Agency (IEA) employee and one former—the IEA has been purposely painting an overly rosy picture of the remaining available world oil supplies to avoid panicking the public. Apparently this obfuscation has been a result of heavy pressure from the United States. As one whistleblower put it

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