There is always a narratives to go to war over. Many say it is the irreconcilable differences between nations an their ideological values that clash that cause it. However it is always arguable that it is a pure power style of nations vying for economical superiority.
As it was in the Great War, dubbed the "The War to End All Wars", where a democratic England trade rivalry with the German Reich’s economic giant was dubbed down to a monarch tyrant vs democracy and freedom.
The winners gain the spoils of war while the loser weeps over the savage reprimands much like a gambler in debt.
However war makes companies filthy rich either through the exploitation of using home grown products in favor of others and or having the opportunity to mercilessly slaughtering your competitions in the act of war.
The domination of Crude oil in the market and development into the main source of fuel was one such stratagem that spurred the war on.
Australia, like many countries in the midst of the fear, was driven by such wartime demands to eliminate their ‘alternative supplies’ and to make petroleum the predominant fuel.
Steam, oil and alcohol based machines and appliances that were used in, around the house and or farm were collected by agents of the government and melted down into ships, tanks and weapons for the war efforts, thus eliminating the local competition.
The foreign uses of fuel were also hunted down, identified and eliminated as a source of competition.
The discovery of our enemies' fuel source:
“However, when our Marines opened drums marked "Aviation Fuel" written in Japanese at Guadalcanal, what they found was alcohol. The Japanese Zero, a wooden airplane with a nine-cylinder radial copied from our Pratt & Whitney engines, ran on alcohol. The Zero could outrun and out climb anything we had at the beginning of the War. Alcohol allows the use of a higher compression in the engine, runs cooler, and permits higher rpms.”
By eliminating the foreign and domestic alternate fuel source the Oil companies gained a strangle hold of the market and succeeded on making nations dependent on them for fuel. With a now captive audience they now had the economic world eating out of their hands.
Joe.
