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The resultant economic income elasticity / demand destruction from sudden "shocks" in energy costs will dull those gains for oil comopanies. And that shock has a longer signal.

Witness the commodity runup from the last time we blew up west Asia - the resultant liquidity squeeze would melt down the financialized economic system. A collapse only slapshod avoided by exchanging government risk for private risk on an unprecedented scale. Did the Iraq 2003 adventure actually net more money for oil companies in a 10-20 year horizon? Debateable.