Interesting article - skimmed it quickly.
You know, I've been flirting with the idea of high oil prices being useful as:
1. A foreign aid program to the middle east
2. A brake on Chinindia development (input)
3. A reflationary mechanism in the setting of structural deflation
Note that #1 was obliquely referenced (infrastructure development) in the paper.
Only problem with those reccomendations are those darn islamic banking laws... you never know what you're gonna get 'cause of that. Hope they ain't all the folks buying up all the plat...