{"id":293285,"date":"2010-02-08T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/virgins-richard-branson-predicts-oil-crunch-by-2015-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-08T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:17:00","slug":"richard-branson-an-oil-crunch-is-coming-by-2015-and-it-will-be-worse-than-the-credit-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293285","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson: An Oil Crunch Is Coming By 2015, And It Will Be Worse Than The Credit Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4a840838d96bee0a0cc6f337\/richard-bransonjpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"richard-branson.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard Branson is calling on the UK&#8217;s government to prepare for the worst in the oil market, rather than sit back and allow a crisis to occur.<\/p>\n<p>Branson is warning that slow response in preparation for the coming &#8216;oil crunch,&#8217; which he predicts for 2015, could leave the world&#8217;s economy in an even worse state than the credit crunch did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time, we do have the chance to prepare. The challenge is to use that time well,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/feb\/07\/branson-warns-peak-oil-close\">to prepare for the oil crisis, Branson said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Branson&#8217;s portfolio of company&#8217;s includes the Virgin Atlantic and Virgina America airline brands, as well as a Virgin Trains, a UK based rail company, all of which rely on the international energy market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Miss: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~3\/business-news\/feb-1-coleman2-2010-2\">UBS Analyst Andrew Coleman &ndash; Top Stock Picks In The Oil Sector For 2010<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/virgins-richard-branson-predicts-oil-crunch-by-2015-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-is-building-the-worlds-largest-transportation-network\">The Chinese Transportation Boom Will Blow Your Mind<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cash-money-records-founders-start-an-oil-company-2010-2\">Cash Money Records Founders Start An Oil Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-richard-branson-is-a-billionaire-and-youre-not-2009-2\">Why Richard Branson Is A Billionaire And You&#8217;re Not<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/iFSMv2cKzYI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson is calling on the UK&#8217;s government to prepare for the worst in the oil market, rather than sit back and allow a crisis to occur. Branson is warning that slow response in preparation for the coming &#8216;oil crunch,&#8217; which he predicts for 2015, could leave the world&#8217;s economy in an even worse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}