by Taipan Greene

How to invest in oil is a subject of interest to many traders in a world economy that is largely driven by the price and availability of products derived from products obtained from crude oil, like gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, plastics, and fertilizer.

It is hard to imagine a world in which these products are extremely expensive or not widely available but that could be the case within a few years.

The term Peak Oil is one that most investors are now aware of. Yet the meaning of peak oil is widely misunderstood. Peak Oil does not mean that the world is nearing a time where there is no oil available. Rather it refers to the rapidly developing situation in the production of oil where the major oil fields of the world are in a state of production decline and even with new technology no major …