"The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World" by Daniel Yergin is a comprehensive essay on the recent history and on the likely future of the oil and energy in a rather optimistc landscape. But, starting whith its "financialization", many problems remain open.

The  present  size of capital movements means something more than what was originally considered an obvious process of Western globalisation

The flow of capital  going into the Emerging Countries  is  partly used to reinforce their economy and  partly used for investment abroad : the flow of capital into Emerging Countries is matched  by a relevant out flow from these countries

Il gas naturale costa meno ed è meno inquinante, e continuerà a essere dominante fino a quando le fonti rinnovabili non diverranno più competitive.