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.