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Originally Posted by TurboTrucker
1 We are extremely dependant on oil, and you'd better believe we'll fight for it. If the world was running out of water, do you think there would be wars over it? Damn right there would be.
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Excellent point. As a corrollary to that, which makes more sense:
* Throw billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives into prosecuting a series of ill-conceived wars and throwing chance to the winds, or
* Invest a fraction of that into developing alternative sources of energy that can replace the majority of oil use?
On the face of it, obviously investment would be the correct long-term solution... but that just isn't happening to any serious degree. There may be a couple of reasons for this (all pure speculation from this point on, of course):
1. They already have a technology in their back pocket, but are using the current situation to increase the already insane levels of class separation for whatever reason (greed is a good candidate)
2. They have solid proof that oil is the *only* practical, portable fuel source and that development of an alternative would be so prohibitively expensive in terms of current fuel availability as to make them practical impossibilities, and are therefore conquering to be 'last man standing'
3. They're being ruled by a combination of greed, hubris and ideology that demand such fires be lit to further a more sinister agenda (the 'illuminati factor')
4. As
W's former biographer claims he once said (while governor of texas, and allegedly with tape to prove it): "One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief(...) My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it(...) If I have a chance to invade?.if I had that much capital, I?m not going to waste it. I?m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I?m going to have a successful presidency." The rest of the gang hopped on board for the profit sharing motive (Dick would make out like a bandit, of course).
5. Fill in your own wild speculation here, which would probably be equally as valid in this crystal ball gazing exercise.
So "Oil and Position" may be part of the equation, maybe even a majority part, but then... maybe not.
