Reply #22: I agree with Dennis, but I don't believe we went to war just for Iraq's oil, we went to war [View All]

to drive up the price of oil in general. This would allow Bush's corporate oil buddies to make a killing at the people's expense before society evolved away from fossil based fuels. I believe this is also a prime motivation for the saber rattling with Iran.

The corporate people that enabled Bush to power aren't stupid, in spite of all the money Exxon and the like spent disclaiming the looming catastrophe of global warming climate change, they knew it's was for real, too much peer reviewed scientific evidence had passed under the bridge for them to possibly have believed otherwise.

They knew as global warming climate change progressively made it's self known in ways too large for them and their corporate media toadies to deny, the impetus to change would be as it was from horses to automobiles, and trains to planes. Society would change whether they wanted it to or not, so I believe they thought, the next best fall back position would be to gouge the American People for every penny they could before we did change.

I know this sounds like the equivalent of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs, and that may actually be the case, but I believe it's also possible they thought, this would enrich them to the point of being able to transfer their monopolies based on fossil fuels to sustainable ones and corner the market in those areas as well.

Thanks for the thread, babsbunny.