Mr. Otteau added that he foresees prices rising through this summer, saying that after that, he expected them to "plateau and then remain flat through the fall and winter".
Mr. Gheit said he could foresee oil prices going as high as $170 by the end of the summer before plummeting.
Mr. Yergin said he could foresee oil prices surging as high as $150 in the next few years or falling as low as $40.
"We don't foresee a price level at which we'd stop shopping organic," he said.
The lead-up to the actual destruction is not hard to foresee: Ryan, Price, and their co-conspirators will claim that they have to "save" Medicare because it is going broke even faster than before Trumpcare was enacted.
Given that the cost of many new drugs is unsustainable for even the wealthiest countries in the world, I foresee new pricing models such as the one introduced by Gilead in the developing world for the Hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi.
It foresees oil prices, which averaged $74.11 last year but are now in the $95 range, "approaching $100/barrel by 2018 and remaining at that level through 2026".
In retrospect, the state's critics say that the utility's insistence on a pass-through should have been a red flag that it foresaw rising prices.
And banks are more likely to provide mortgages if they foresee higher home prices.
