• Economist Paul Single at City National has done a deep dive into oil. Petroleum contributes less to GDP growth due to the shift to a services economy. Since 1980, oil consumption has “flat lined,” he writes, while GDP has “exploded.” Meanwhile, fracking has driven production “from about 5.5 million barrels a day to almost 14 million”…
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