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WT,
You do realize that the traditional use of the term "Iron Triangle" is to describe the military-industrial complex, don't you?
It's a term that's been around forever.
Personally, I believe CERA is a card-carrying member of the military-industrial complex and is being used to keep peak-oil denial in place for as long as possible so that as much wealth can be extracted as possible from consumer society before the big crack-up.
I think Yergin and CERA have been promised a suite of offices right below Halliburton in the Dubai Tower for their help in creating the neocons' new world order.
I've been reading Yergin since 1978. His attacks on peak oil seem way overboard to me.
On Google, my version of the "Iron Triangle" appears to be at #5, and I never claimed to have originated the term.
And your aware that the military industrial complex is especially sensitive to peak oil. They might need for example to go invade the country with large remaining oil reserves to ensure their continued existence.
Right, memmel,
I really think the military-industrial complex sees this a make or break for their survival. I'm sure they read WT's export model with great alarm.
Probably this era of American history will go down as the time that instead of using the nation's wealth to build an alternative-energy future, it was all spent to try to keep the M-I Complex going a few more years.
I just wonder whether that whole crew will just relocate to the Persian Gulf and cut off North America if all this starts to get dicey ... I suppose that's what I'd do.