Peak Oil Geopolitics

So Bin Laden is annoyed that US troops are in the Caliphate/Middle East. But they aren’t likely to leave anytime soon. World oil production is peaking according to Hubbert, and in 10 years or so the price of oil will rocket as, increasingly, it becomes evident that most of what little is left is buried the sands of Arabia.

The US is going to keep its troops there to safeguard its supplies while it struggles to complete the necessary and inevitable changeover to renewable and nuclear energy sources. This transition from a century of spendthrift oil burning into sustainable millenia of alternative energy sources and conservation is perhaps one of the key tasks of market economies in this century. If they want to remain technologically advanced, that is.

And of course, after the oil starts to run out then there’s the fresh water exhaustion to worry about.

This is already a huge issue as Israel’s administration policies in Gaza and other occupied territories divert a grossly outsized portion of what scant water there is to Israeli fundamentalist colonists and away from the native, Arab inhabitants.