Bingo!  Almost no one is predicting a significant drop in oil prices, and the consensus for 2006, according to a few dozen forecasters that BusinessWeek asked, was just over $53US/barrel.

And there's no way we should expect to see anything less than an acceleration of the response (demand as well as R&D) as people realize, through empirical data, that the "high" prices are here to stay and aren't just a blip.

or Boeings for Russian oil/gas