"But the world isn't like that"

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Disagree on both. Germany is very much involved in the oil business.
> A
> different sort of involvement than say, the USA's involvement or
> Iraq's,
> for sure, but not too unlike Japan's.

To elaborate:
I have a dim recollection that the Axis powers in WWII were motivated
in part by oil -- they didn't have control of enough oil to fuel both
their domestic industries and their military. Germany had lots of coal
of its own but no oil and had to devote ingenuity and extra cash to
producing liquid fuels from solid coal. Japan hadn't enough of either
coal or oil to fuel its brand new industrializing economy. Each was
reliant upon foreign oil sources, and resented paying the producers.
And resented the control over their actions that this supply/demand
relationship implied. Japan's aggressive colonial wars, which preceded
the attack on the US, where aimed at control of energy supplies.

Is this true?

Mark

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