The new oil rush

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FEATURE: The new oil rush

The start of a new chapter in the world's long love affair with oil: Global demand, particularly in China and India, is outstripping supply--an imbalance that has been painfully evident as pump prices climb toward $3 a gallon. Even the optimists agree that the era of "easy oil" is over. Political risk hovers over most conventional reserves, held by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (including trouble spots like Nigeria and Venezuela) and Russia. So the United States is turning to new possibilities--the largely untapped resource of "unconventional oil" in North America.

How high-tech prospectors are trying to squeeze fuel--and fat profits--out of the earth while transforming the petroleum market: http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a145711a386406792a8

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