War For Oil ?

An historic study:

Oil and what it represents - energy - have always been a source of conflict.

For example, The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had its origins, in part, in a decision by the United States to limit oil exports to Japan in 1941 in response to the Japanese invasion of China.


At that time, Japan was very dependant of the United States production of oil.

Gulf War was an other consequence of the conflicts about oil, in fact, when oil extraction was developed in the 1930s, the strategic value of the region (Arabia Saudit etc..) increased significantly.

An old report of British government discover in January revealed that in 1973 Washington drew up a plan to seize oilfields in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi to counter an Arab oil embargo against the West.

Furthermore, the intervention by the United States and its allies in Kuwait in 1991 was in large part motivated by a need to secure oil and to prevent Saddam Hussein from expanding his access to that.

Hitleer, in 1945, predict that oil will become an important resource and he said that if Germany didn't keep important oil resources they wouldn't be a big force.

Nowadays, countries try to find other energies, for instance Uranium. those countries with uranium would become among the most attractive. The top ten are: Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, South Africa, Namibia, Brazil, Russia, USA, Uzbekistan and China.

So, energies are very important in today's societies, Yesterday it was "the black gold", but what will be the "gold" of tomorrow ?

War for oil is a cause of oil price increase.