Last week’s OPEC meeting turned out to be quite a bit bumpier than expected as members argued over a number of points, with the decision being delayed by days. Looking ahead, OPEC’s job is going to continue to get more and more difficult because the 20th-century energy model is headed for the scrap heap. Pulling fossil fuels out of the ground and piping them off to refineries for conversion into something to burn in combustion engines is quickly becoming an outmoded model for powering human culture around the world. However, counterintuitively, the process of killing off that dying model stands to drive oil prices higher as investment in new production capacity dwindles and output is politically constrained.