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We Had to Burn all the Oil in Order to Secure It | 29 comments (29 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
I suspected War for Oil would itself be a major (4.00 / 3)
part of oil consumption.  

Thanks for posting this article on how big a part.  

The Fates are kind.

by Gaianne on Tue Jun 19th, 2007 at 02:05:39 AM EST
Not really (4.00 / 2)
The Iraq War is at 100,000 b/d, and the Pentagon overall consumes something like 300,000 b/d.

So the War is 0.5% of US consumption (or 0.1% of world consumption), and the Pentagon is 1.5% of US consmptions (and 0.4% of world consumption).

Not small, but not that significant, relatively speaking.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 19th, 2007 at 11:50:26 AM EST
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Re: Not really (none / 1)
it's really just a continuum...millions of highway hogs need wars for sources of cheap oil to continue their ways...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 20th, 2007 at 07:33:38 AM EST
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