Obviously there is a “silent approval of PO taking place/imminent”, since they state that it (PO) can be Forestalled! Why forestall anything that doesn’t exist nor will happen …?
Also strange from within that article :

.....analysts Neil McMahon and Ben Dell forecast in a report today. Prices will probably rise later, beyond 2010, and reach $114 a barrel by 2015 as spare capacity declines, they wrote.

Right now WTI is at 118 $ ....and it is early 2008.

Your post Paal caught my eye. 114 by 2015, yet right now in 08 its 118?! Really makes you wonder if these guys worked on this article in a mountain hideaway and then published it before watching the revolving ticker on CNBC to see what oil is actually trading at. Either that, or they work for CERA.