The Oil Drum

That makes a lot more sense to me.

To me it comes down to whether the secret energy policy has a linkage to the Iraq war that followed it.  I am sure there is a connection, but of course just because B follows A is no proof of causality. The Iraq war is one of the costliest (in so many ways) blunders we've ever made, especially coming as it has at or near PO.  And if you count the opportunity cost, perhaps you need to double the dollar value spent on it.  If indeed the Iraq war was discussed in these meetings as an ENERGY strategy, then that means it was probably the highest act of treason ever committed in our history.  Aside for the criminal aspects, it means that the "profits" those oil companies have made of late are owed directly to the American people in payment for the US military serving as a mercenary force for the oil companies, a point I've made in recent posts about the profit issue.  And the failure to invest in conservation and alternate energy strategies may be catastrophic to the nation in coming years - the Hirsch report illustrates the costs of delaying action as the peak approaches.

No, we cannot get the billions spent on Iraq back, they are gone, wasted, but think of the wake up call to the American public if it were shown that this is what it was all about, as I believe.  Would there be much argument left that the coming oil crisis was real?    If the public knew that the Iraq war was really a premeditated attempt to secure ME oil because of impending decline, it MIGHT make people more willing to accept a serious national program, and therefore politicians more willing to propose it.

Far from being typical fat-cat business as usual, there is no more important political issue.