His comments were attacked as alarmist in some circles, but uprisings in the Middle East recently made politicians more concerned that never only a small group of authoritarian leaders have the world on a barrel of oil.
Imagine how quickly geopolitical change if someone invented a viable replacement for petroleum as a transportation fuel.
Democratic Nations would no longer need to accept agreements with questionable leaders, like Colonel Gaddafi; BP would prompt layoffs with a group of four Russian billionaires and the Kremlin to have access to the deepest and darkest crude reserves and, although heard, the UK tax authorities would not take £ 26bn of the obligation of gasoline per year, and the tax on sales of crude from the North Sea.
It is almost unimaginable wealth how national and relations between countries would change if oil simply become unnecessary, smelly and dangerously flammable waste material.
It is a simplistic exaggeration - given the multiple uses of chemicals and Plastics petroleum products and other industries, but a power ersatz oil is not inconceivable at a given time. In the scheme of history as the sources of energy have traditionally been temporary.
So what are the hopes of best in the world to get over his addiction to gasoline? There is a huge disagreement among experts attempting to predict what could be the alternative fuel. The current British Government favors making Britain from bus and train electrical systems, while encouraging consumers to purchase rechargeable cars.
However, there is another option - hydrogen. The company behind certain ambitious recent claims is called energy Cella, supported by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory the Oxford University and the UK taxpayer. Experts say that gasoline could begin to be replaced with a cheaper pump fuel hydrogen in three years.
Researchers say that their new green energy source could be also cheap than 90 p per litre after taxes - well below the current price of about 130 p per litre. He, of course, be skeptical. As of 2003, people have been touting the hydrogen as the fuel of the future.
The problem has been that it is too dangerous to be handled in the open air. Previous attempts to develop fuels to hydrogen in special trucks and buses have needed high pressure tanks or extreme cooling at least 253 degrees centigrade, but newly invented "artificial essence of Cella" can be put directly into ordinary cars with a few changes many labor markets. New technology store hydrogen safely to tiny "micro-perles", that is why it can be paid as easily as conventional fuels.
Stephen Voller, Executive Director of the Cella, said: "there has been much hype around fuels to hydrogen, but we have a breakthrough."
Cella energy hopes begin to sell hydrogen blended gasoline by about 2013 and gradually extend its use.
Prof. Stephen Bennington, the lead scientist of the project, said: "in a sense, the hydrogen is the perfect fuel." He has three times more energy that gasoline per unit of weight, and when it consumes it produces nothing other than water. »
However, one of the problems with hydrogen is that it does not occur naturally. The previous hydrogen cars have generated fuel using gas or renewable energy - leading to the question of whether is also environmentally friendly as it seems.
Cella insists on the fact that its hydrogen, hydrides, made does not have the same problem - as the key ingredient is abundant and easily accessible.
It seems that Royal Dutch Shell may also see the potential of work of the Cella. Giant oil recently obtained the company his award from springboard for most promising early stage technology in the alternative fuels industry. Cella will now use his prize money of £ 40,000 in an attempt to produce its fuel on an industrial scale, backed by the company Thomas Swan chemical.
Should Saudi Arabia be quaking in its boots immediately? "I hope so," Mr Voller answers.
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