Suddenly the image of the slide seems wrong now.This week OPEC has been asked to ramp up the production of OIL so business can continue as usual.
So the image that occurs to me is not a headlong descent into the Stone Age where we perish from survivalism inexperience.
No! Its the one where the crash test dummy hurtles into a brick wall.
The Indian car maker Tata [prescient name - it's Welsh for Goodbye] is about to sell the NANO [latin for dwarf] .
It is the cheapest car in the world at just over £1000.
Imagine the delight of millions of Indians who can now get their first car.
Imagine the traffic.
Imagine the smell and the clouds of poisonous exhausts in the tropical heat.
But it doesn't take much imagination to contemplate the thirst for petrol. Millions of Indians queuing at the filling station.
Just over the border are 2 billion Chinese who have been busy making clothes and household goods for us for years - they too will no doubt aspire to a little runabout.
Imagine Billions at the filling station.
So business as usual please - we are wanting a piece of the action.
P.S By 2025, the world will be cursed with 7,958,550,889 more of us! Save some for me!
