Today’s New York Times has an article worth-reading called “Imagining a $7-a-Gallon Future.” While the article calms some fears about the end of oil as we know it, the prescient history of our addictive resource is worth remembering.
After World War I, the American government’s top oil expert predicted a coming “gasoline famine.” One solution was to cobble together the three easternmost provinces of the defunct Ottoman Empire into a new country, called Iraq, believed to be rich in oil resources and safely under British control.
It’s the oil, my friends. Always has been.
