The American Empire Meets Peak Oil
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace...." - President Bush in the 2004 State of the Union Address
When will the President clarify why the US maintains more than 700 military bases in 130 countries if, in fact, the US has no desire to dominate or ambitions of empire?
The American Empire Meets Peak Oil
Following the Soviet collapse in 1989, the U.S.’s economic empire was left without any effective constraints except two: global warming and peak oil.
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Control of oil is critical to the U.S. because globalization, the American Empire, the U.S. economy and the American way of life all depend on oil. U.S. per-capita consumption is approximately 25 barrels per year — double that of western Europe, more than five times the world average and 16 times higher than that of China. The U.S. produces only a third of the oil it consumes, so that its dependence upon imports was rising even before the hurricanes further reduced domestic supplies. And maintaining an empire is very expensive and energy-intensive.
CanadianDimension.com
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