Jeff Rubin, the former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller built his reputation as one of Canada’s top economists based on a number of successful predictions including the housing bust of the early 90s and the rise of oil prices. In his recent book, Mr. Rubin predicts $225 per barrel oil by 2012 and with it the end of globalization, a movement towards local sourcing and a need for massive scaling up of energy efficiency.
Jeff Rubin at the The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 (transcript added)
By Jeff Rubin, originally published by wwfcanada
January 25, 2010
Tags: Consumption & Demand, Culture & Behavior, Education, Energy Policy, Fossil Fuels, Industry, Media & Communications, Oil
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