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Powerful multinational corporations may control the machinery of the energy community; national governments may control the military forces that defend the world's energy supplies; but at the end of the day, the driving force behind the energy economy, the reason those supplies have value, is the billions of energy transactions that take place every day in every nation on earth and which together embody the world's insatiable thirst for energy.

— Paul Roberts (in The End of Oil)

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