I suppose someone has speculated this before, but I’ve not seen it. So here goes ….
Imagine for a moment how much gasoline the U.S. military consumes in one day of conducting the war on Iraq. We have flown and otherwise transported literally millions of tons of supplies and equipment to this far away place. And every day the soldiers and auxiliary personnel must be re-supplied, it is never ending. The amount of fuel consumed by this effort is truly mind-blogging. I wonder what percent of the total U.S. oil consumption is being used for this purpose.
During WW2 everyone understood they would have to sacrifice for the war effort, it was the “Patriotic” thing to do. It was a tangible way to participate if one was a civilian.
Scrap-metal collecting drives were organized, rubber was collected and recycled, the call for this or that went out and the people responded. More importantly though, rationing was implemented nationally to support the war effort. Continue reading True Reason for High Gas Prices: Economic Rationing →
