The International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental energy advisor, has projected an almost in conventional oil production by 2020 and the potential for a serious gap between supply and demand by 2015.

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Moving almost all production overseas--to Latin America and Asia--helped to boost operating (that is, Ebitda) margins from 8% three years ago to 14% now.

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Today, almost all production is in China and other Asian countries.

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As a result, there is almost no domestic production of rare earths in the United States.

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