Non-Surprise For 2012

Forbes has published an article entitled Five Non-Surprises For 2012. Number 5:

People will begin to realize that T. Boone Pickens was right about natural gas. The problem all too often is that someone is right about something but they’re simply too early. Apple was right about the Newton and mobile computing; it was just too early. AOL Time Warner was right about Internet delivery of media; it was just too early. Larry Ellison was right about cloud computing; he was just too early. Americans will recognize the economic, military, and political cost of being dependent on foreign oil. Given the abundance of natural gas in the United States and Canada, its low price relative to oil, and its lower emissions relative to oil, policymakers will begin to lay plans for a major energy infrastructure shift in the U.S.