Why another war for Oil?

I suggest the one big reason for the drop in oil prices has a lot to do with the end of our recent wars. Since the US military is the worlds biggest consumer of fuel and since the US engagement in the Wars in Iraq and Afganistan are over (kinda, sorta), the world is all a gush with oil. Too much supply for the world now that the biggest customer is out of the market and so the prices are low and maybe going lower? Big oil can't stand this so they must somehow get the US military machine up into another war to suck up excess supplies. I have posted a 2008 article during the height of the Iraq war and something of interest from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/05/mileage-military-vehicles-tech-logistics08-cz_ph_0605fuel.html


6/05/2008 @ 6:00PM
The World's Biggest Fuel Consumer

The U.S. Department of Defense is the single-largest consumer of fuel in the world. Despite rising fuel costs and a limited supply of oil, the military’s fuel consumption has been growing in recent years. In World War II, the armed forces used about one gallon of fuel per soldier every day. In Desert Storm, fuel usage was about four gallons. By 2007, with operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, usage was up to 16 gallons, or $3 million worth of fuel a day.

So where does it all go? To the Air Force, mostly. Jet fuel accounts for 71% of the entire military’s petroleum consumption, in part because flyboys move around the majority of men and a lot of heavy equipment. When it’s time for an Army battalion to deploy, they hitch a ride on a cargo plane through the U.S. Transportation Command (TransCom).

“TransCom is like a very large airline,” says Army Col. Vern Beatty. “When the time is right, a C-17 will land and pick you up and take you where you need to go.”
In Pictures: Fuel-Sucking Military Vehicles
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U.S. Military and Oil Use
Union of Concerned Scientists