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If the fuel dries up in the world, part II
Dwindling reserves - more wars for oil
Currently, about 81 million barrels extracted worldwide oil per day by 2035 could reduce the funding by more than 50 million barrels per day. With unpredictable consequences - Experts fear new political and military conflicts. Tagesschau.de reported in the series "If the fuel dries up in the world" about the possible consequences.

That oil supplies dwindle worldwide, including the massive armies concerns: tanks and jets consume huge quantities of fuel. The control of the reserves is important, the more likely they are wars. The search for alternatives is - whether it be the rich, appears uncertain.

By Jürgen Döschner, WDR, ARD-Energy Task Force

Baghdad, 20 March 2003: With a hail of bombs and rocket-open the U.S. armed forces to war against Iraq. A war for oil, said then and now, the U.S. peace and conflict researcher Michael Klare. And it is firmly convinced that it will not be the last.

"The oil comes from us little by little. But at the same time, we remain extremely dependent on this residual oil," he says. And at this stage from now until the complete disappearance of the oil, the remaining balance will be extremely expensive, "That is why the struggle for control over this radical and more violent."




Trucks in the port of Karachi, carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan
Smoke over Baghdad in March 2003 was in this war is about oil, the conflict researcher Michael Clear said.
Access to oil as a matter of survival

For the hypermobile Western industrialized nations, access to oil has become a matter of survival, and the use of military force to secure the oil supply in many countries an integral part of the national security doctrine. It is also the armed forces themselves depend on the "black gold". "The armed forces are now so dependent on oil than ever before," says Clear. During the Second World War, an army was consumed in use, for example, 15 liters per day per soldier oil. Today there are on average 60 liters per day and a soldier.

Audio: armies increasingly dependent on oil

Example Leopard 2: Fuel consumption per 100 kilometers, up to 530 liters of diesel. A modern fighter jet burns per hour 2000-6000 liters of kerosene. Oil is vital for the armed forces, the military and so will not only war about oil - it also promotes peace researcher says Clear.

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, which is a threat to the combat effectiveness of U.S. forces in the region have been. "That was certainly one of the reasons that persuaded the Bush administration to intervene at that time", he said: "The military itself was dependent on the oil wells in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait."

The Pentagon is looking for alternatives

The U.S. military has long recognized the danger posed representing oil reserves for its operational capability. As early as 2006, the U.S. scientist Michael Hornitschek swore in a study commissioned by the Pentagon with the title "War without oil" of the early oil phase-out of the military. Only then was the "American Way of War" to make sure.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus recently announced that its troops will refer to 2020 half of the energy from non fossil sources: "We are vulnerable to energy disruption - and even if we get enough oil, we are vulnerable to price shocks." When the operation in Libya had gone off and shot up the price of oil, was the only U.S. Navy cost one billion U.S. dollars. Mabus' conclusion: "No oil - that means strengthening our combat capability."

jet fuel from algae?

The Pentagon is not only the largest single consumer of oil worldwide - it has also become a pioneer in the search for alternatives to oil. There is even the initial success of aviation fuel from algae, for example.

But even if it were possible soon, such a replacement for kerosene and diesel in sufficient quantity and economical to produce: would be for the military so that the fuel problem is still far from saying, Peace Researcher clear: "What is with all the equipment - tanks, planes, helicopters - material for hundreds of billions of dollars, the least tolerate these alternative fuels, at least not in its present form. "

From "War without oil", the war without oil, the global military machine is thus still far away. And paradoxical as it may sound: That is why it is even more in future wars be about oil.

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