Money for oil and cars
For many it is at the heart of many of the problems in the middle east and it continues to be the Achilles heel of the Western world. Access to increasingly supplies of oil continue to dominate the thoughts of many leaders around the globe.
But the question is at what cost? Death tolls continue to rise daily in the Arabian world, while recently off the coast of the USA the environmental impact of the quest for oil was all to easy to see with huge volumes of the stuff being dispersed into the Gulf of Mexico.
While oil is needed for a variety of things, including significant industrial use, it is cars that remain the real driving force behind demand. Despite significant investment in local transit by countries around the world, in the western world lie no where else on the planet the convenience of cars carries all before it. Until this addiction to the auto mobile is broken there will no end to the demand for oil.