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Originally Posted by username
While I don't believe in the whole conspiracy part of this, there are a lot of strange coincidences that came out of this
1 - Americans became very scared of anyone with a middle Eastern background.
2 - The price of oil started to climb shortly after the 911/I.T. recession ended
3 – The US was in an energy crisis with the price of a gallon of gas reaching 3.50
4 – The fear generated from War on Terrorism was enough to convince Americans they needed to go to war against Iraq.
5 – The US takes control of Iraq and the first thing they do is secure the oil pipelines.
6 – A US friendly govt. takes over Iraq
7 – US oil companies are able to move into Iraq
8 – The United States secures possibly 3-4 millions barrels of conventional oil
Coincidence?
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It's estimated the US DoD burns about 40 million barrels of fuel in the first few weeks in Iraq, and another 100-150 million barrels per year on the total war effort. Maybe you meant 110-200 billion barrels.