Sorry, meant to include:
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/environment/20...tric-grid-than/WB, it all depends upon if you want to count subsidies equally.
We fought the first Gulf War specifically and strategically to protect our major source of middle east oil from being captured by Saddam, Saudi Arabia, and to recapture Kuwait, another major source.
That war eventually let to 911, and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So if you want to add up the cost of those wars, including the deaths of thousands of Americans, I'd be happy to compare the balance sheets.
I don't know if you lived through the OPEC embargo decades ago, when Americans waited in lines for hours to get limited amounts of gas. I do. I far prefer to find ways to become independent of such scenarios.
I appreciate that others prefer to declare war on others who have the resources that we covet, and take those things away from them by force. Certainly it's the historical way.
