"We've embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil. Embrace the future and recognize the growing demand for a wide range of fuels, or ignore reality and slowly --but surely-- be left behind." |
"No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels." |
"...all the bloodshed in Afghanistan was for the clarification of the world's energy map of the 21st century" - Turkish Daily News 6-30-97 |
The impact of American oil interests and the Bush-Cheney energy stance on U.S.-Afghanistan politics has been apparent to observers for years. Has this influenced American actions in response to the events of 9-11? |
Oil and U.S. interestsRoutes to riches - "Afghanistan has huge strategic importance for the west as a corridor to the untapped fuel reserves in central Asia" Oil, Afghanistan and America's pipe dream""Afghanistan's significance from an energy standpoint stems from its geographical position as a potential transit route for oil and natural gas exports from central Asia to the Arabian sea." Cheney's Black Gold: Oil Interests May Drive US Foreign Policy"Cheney and his fellow oilmen have zeroed in on the world's other major source of oil--the Caspian Sea. Cheney told a gaggle of oil industry executives in 1998, "I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian."
The Dubya Doctrine: Caspian Oil
"…Bush participation represented "the nexus between oil politics and geopolitics."" Evidence of Oil Company Meddling from Afghanistan to Turkey "...all the bloodshed in Afghanistan was for the clarification of the world's energy map of the 21st century"
Ending oil dependency
Never mind the pundits, the root cause remains the same
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Mind Games This piece from the Moscow Times is quoted at the Oil News website:
Impacts of war on access to oil |