ROCKMAN wrote:tita - "Oil shortages in the 1930's?? Are you joking? This period is considered as an oil-glut era," Not in Germany or Japan. Might want to check history books a tad. In particular the US oil embargo on Japan. Many historians feel that gave the Japanese military the leverage to push the govt to agree to attack Pearl Harbor.
Okay, I understand that you try to associate the "peak oil dynamic" with the origins of the WWII conflict. But there was no depletion in Germany and Japan as they were not producing oil, this was a resource distribution problem. But the 30's saw big jump in the various usage of oil, which became a strategic importance for economic expansion. This led oil-poor countries like Japan to secure supply from oil-rich neighbors... through military imperialism.
Of course, the resource distribution problem is very similar to the depletion problem. But a global depletion can't be solved through trade agreements like it was done after WWII, which led to a global economic growth fueled with oil.
