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Oiling the War Machine
Is the Iraq War a US response to Peak Oil? Is it a favor to Israel? Is it meant to bring US consumers cheap gasoline?, or to inflate oil prices that balloon the profits of US oil firms? Ismael Hossein-Zadeh posed these questions and gave his answers in an interesting article “Are They Really Oil Wars?” He summarized his view this way:
“In this study I will first argue that the Peak Oil theory is unscientific, unrealistic, and perhaps even fraudulent. I will then show that war and military force are no longer the necessary or appropriate means to gain access to sources of energy, and that resorting to military measures can, indeed, lead to costly, not cheap, oil. Next, I will demonstrate that, despite the lucrative spoils of war resulting from high oil prices and profits, Big Oil prefers peace and stability, not war and geopolitical turbulence, in global energy markets. Finally, I will argue a case that behind the drive to war and military adventures in the Middle East lie some powerful special interests (vested in war, militarism, and geopolitical concerns of Israel) that use oil as an issue of
Hossein-Zadeh entered this topic with an economist’s perspective and arrived at political conclusions. What follows are an engineer’s perspective, which arrives to somewhat different political conclusions. One realization from this exercise is that our conclusions may germinate and flower from our initial suspicions, and somehow mold our technical arguments and logic into conformity with our intuition. Therefore, what follows is the statement of a thesis, without any claim of proof.
Military control, over global energy resources and energy commerce, creates political power over economic rivals.
A military-industrial-congressional-complex (MICC) owns the US government and runs it as a mechanism of self-aggrandizement, as is evident by the proportion of tax revenues that flow into military accounts.
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