Exactly. What happened was geologists knew about shale oil and gas deposits in North America for years, and then finally someone figured out how to extract it economically given prices in the mid-late 00s, probably because they wanted to make money. They made money, hundreds of firms copied them, and the Saudis responded to the threat of market share loss by pumping lots of oil. There was no centralized decision making in this process, just a bunch of individuals, firms, and governments reading the tea leaves of the oil market independently.

I suppose trade deals would require too much coordination between those inept national administrators. I guess it is also too bad that there are no international standards like TCP/IP becuase that would require coordination as well. And its a good thing there is no coordination, that way we dont't have any international spying programs on citizens.

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