Energized

_No one expected the oil to last forever. How right they were...._

One geopolitical miscalculation sufficed to taint major oil fields with radioactivity and plunge the Middle East into chaos. What little oil remains usable is more prized than ever. No one can build solar farms, wind farms, and electric cars quickly enough to cope. The few countries still able to export oil and natural gas--Russia chief among them--have a stranglehold on the world economy.

And then, from the darkness of the ou...