Hole in the Wall
Follow the Money
RECEIVED Mon., June 26, 2006
Dear Editor,
Re: "Crude Awakening, Indeed" (“Postmarks,” June 23): An interesting take on the Iraq war is provided by Greg Palast in Armed Madhouse. The war was not about simply grabbing Iraqi oil. Rather, the occupation strategy (designed by big oil/OPEC cartel) was to make sure that Iraqi oil production was controlled and stifled in order to ensure reduced world supply and drive up prices (notice the price of gas since 2003?). Per Palast: "... please don't slander Mother Earth and say she's run out of oil when it's man-made mischief to blame. Evil, not geology, has a chokehold on energy; nature is ready to give us crude at $12 a barrel where it was just a few short years ago" (p.114). Peak oil is a convenient myth designed by big oil to scare the public into accepting artifically inevitable price hikes. When you think about peak oil, consider the source and follow the money.
Re: "Crude Awakening, Indeed" (“Postmarks,” June 23): An interesting take on the Iraq war is provided by Greg Palast in Armed Madhouse. The war was not about simply grabbing Iraqi oil. Rather, the occupation strategy (designed by big oil/OPEC cartel) was to make sure that Iraqi oil production was controlled and stifled in order to ensure reduced world supply and drive up prices (notice the price of gas since 2003?). Per Palast: "... please don't slander Mother Earth and say she's run out of oil when it's man-made mischief to blame. Evil, not geology, has a chokehold on energy; nature is ready to give us crude at $12 a barrel where it was just a few short years ago" (p.114). Peak oil is a convenient myth designed by big oil to scare the public into accepting artifically inevitable price hikes. When you think about peak oil, consider the source and follow the money.
John Young