Since 1999, the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy a barrel of oil has simply caught upto the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy an ounce of gold.
The CPI might go up 125% in one decade (as it did 1971-1981), the dollar could permanently lose 66% against major currencies (as it did against the yen in this period), and commodities could shoot up ten-to twenty-five fold (as was the case with oil and gold).
Just as promised before, the PadFone Station (the tablet) and the PadFone Station Dock (the keyboard) do seem to pump up the battery by about five-fold and nine-fold max, respectively.