We all scream for Oil!

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One of the main reasons Mailer suggest that we are trying to become an empire is to control oil. If we can control oil, we can basically control the rest of the world. Oil is something almost every known country in the world needs or wants. If we can control the region, which would be the Middle East, that exports and imports the most oil out of any other country in the world, then we basically have the world by the balls. The United States currently consumes 19.5 million barrels, or 26% of daily global oil consumption. The U.S. has to import 9.8 million barrels a day, or more than half the oil we, as in the U.S., actually consume. The surest way for the U.S. to sustain its overwhelming dependence upon oil is to control the sixty-seven percent of the world’s oil proven oil reserves that lie below the sands of the Persian Gulf (56).

I must say that I agree with Mailer that Bush is trying to make American become some super Empire. I must disagree with Mailer, however, when he said that war is in the American mythology. In all of the past wars, I felt like we always had a reason to go to war. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe we have every right to be at war now, but I do feel we are in the wrong place. Anybody who happens to watch the news regularly, can plainly see that we all the stuff going on the in the world, we are actually on our way to becoming an Empire and we starting with the Middle East. That goes back to what I was saying earlier, The Middle East has oil and we want it bad. If we can control there oil then we have oil to power to cars, machines, tanks, airplanes, ships, etc. This will ultimately give us the power to take over the rest of the world.

Mailer said that most Americans, especially the flag conservatives, love war. I disagree with that. I would say that I am a flag conservative, and will say that I do feel that war is necessary sometimes; I do not love it by any means. If you disagree with what I said that Is fine, everybody is entitled to there own opinions but we really should open our eyes as to what is happening around us.