Even such an original thinker as Darwin acknowledges in the "Preface" of Origin of Species that all his ideas have "predecessors," and he cites every single one.

The least the reporter could have done was acknowledge a paraphrase. Some of it sounds awfully familiar:

Experts say the sharp growth, if it continues, means several of the world’s most important suppliers may need to start importing oil within a decade to power all the new cars, houses and businesses they are buying and creating with their oil wealth.

That "Experts say" is one of the crappiest phrases in journalese. The whole passage sounds lifted from graphoilogy.com.

Good to see it in the MSM. Still full of dumb ass statements though. From the article:

"In some cases, the governments of these countries subsidize gasoline heavily for their citizens, selling it for as little as 7 cents a gallon, a practice that industry experts say fosters wasteful habits."

This is rich! It may be true, but selling it for $3/gallon to Mr and Mrs America fosters wasteful habits too - would they prefer that it be used so Mrs America can drive her darling bubs to school in her SUV, or so Mr America can drive 50 miles to his finance job where he helps the world along with more derivatives scams? Heh :)

I think you'd be very lucky to see anything criticizing "experts" like CERA...

Hi WT,

Appreciation for your contribution and efforts to educate.

re: "real complaint".

Perhaps a short letter-to-the-editor would do the trick. (Just a general suggestion - not meant for you, specifically).