FABIUS MAXIMUS says we're seeing political peak oil. Regardless of what this means globally -- to the extent you can distinguish Saudi reserves from global reserves, I guess -- this offers some support to the notion that the Saudis have been overstating their reserves for a while. Or maybe they've caught on to the Malcom S. Forbes strategy. I guess it was a mistake for me to have mentioned it a couple of weeks ago . . . .
