I have always argued in this blog that waging war to secure oil does not make sense. Those who do it nonetheless succumb to an illusion, or they are using a pretext to justify a war to be fought for (many) other reasons.
In No War for Oil, Ivan Eland shows, it is much cheaper, and indeed operationally more sensible and feasible to buy oil on the market than to fight for it.
I use the occasion to create a list of links to some of the posts that I have written on the subject-matter of oil.
War on Oil - Unfounded Cliché,
Oil and Energy Independence ...,
War on Oil - What You See and What You Do Not See,
The Obsolete Economics of Peak Oil,
The Courage to Think - More Julian Simon.
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