The last time there was a shortage of sweet crude, in 2007 and early 2008, oil prices surged to more than $140 a barrel, although that shortage was caused mostly by spiraling demand and not a sudden cut in supply.
But as borrowers become more hard pressed, lenders — whose participation in the Obama plan is largely voluntary — may not be able or willing to keep up with the spiraling demand for relief.
ExxonMobil's Energy Outlook projects spiraling demand in developing regions: Latin America, up 85%; China, up 100%; and India, up 164%.
To escape the spiralling demands of her mother, a girl uses magic to turn her into a bear.
Most of us want NHS reform and taxpayers' money well spent for meeting new challenges, like obesity, alcohol-related illness and spiralling demands.
"The licence fee must not become a slush fund to be dipped into at will, leading to spiralling demands on licence fee payers to help fund the political or commercial concerns of the day," said Lyons, a former city council chief executive who is close to Gordon Brown and became known as the prime minister's "Mr Fix It".
The number of units has grown by only 32percentnt, leading to claims that rates are being inflated by "wily landlords" to take advantage of spiralling demand.
It essentially overlays centralised structural and managerial changes on to a service that is being suffocated by spiralling demand in many areas, and huge cuts in funding everywhere.
However, many fear – against a backdrop of spiralling demand – the transfer of NHS funds to local government to integrate services will hasten the former's demise.
Spiralling demand in the US has spread to markets across the world, with figures released yesterday showing production in the UK slumped by almost half in December.
