Talk:Oil war

Remove redirect

This talk page was mistakenly redirected to another talk page. I removed the redirect. Sparkie82 (t•c) 14:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

This shouldn't be a disambiguation page

...but rather an article generally describing wars over petroleum resources. 68.173.0.226 (talk) 15:10, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

(I moved this section from Talk:Heglig_Crisis back to this talk page (Talk:Oil war) because it appears that the IP editor had intended to comment on the article Oil war and didn't realize that he was redirected to Talk:Heglig_Crisis when he clicked on the "talk" link.) Sparkie82 (t•c) 14:52, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

My confusion

I'm sorry, but I don't really understand the sentence "It argued that proponents of oil wars underestimate the ability to seize and exploit foreign oil fields, and thus exaggerate the value of oil wars". Can someone please explain it? I would appreciate it. CaffeineP (talk) 04:17, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Is this a myth? (Please discuss).

Seriously, also the definition itself is really vague...I am afraid some sockpuppet has edited the article.

• Emily Meierding is not a reliable source as she works for the departement of national security affairs.

https://www.nps.edu/web/nsa/faculty/-/asset_publisher/eHb4tK5KXorI/content/emily-meierding-ph.d.

The website says she is in energy politics, but all her writings..are about oil, all of her writing on the last 6 years say oil is not a cause for conflict. Many authors or people have said the reverse....the then president of South Africa had said "All he wants [Bush] is oil" - Nelson Mandela. Also she says on one of her written things, that climate change and conflict are disconnected....i'm not trying to reduce the issue, but that's relatively unlikely. The article does explain naff all how do they do? Can they do everything? Is it enough? The article quotes the book, without quoting any of its content...

@CaffeineP

It should be tagged as disputed and I will.

--78.193.35.108 (talk) 18:03, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

• Also Georges W Bush has been the head of an oil company before becoming president....and US has lobbied many times for cars... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E34:EC12:36C0:694A:3DA2:93B6:BB94 (talk) 18:07, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

There are also books pretending the reverse of what said this US advisor... https://www.amazon.com/Petro-Aggression-When-Oil-Causes-War/dp/1107654971

At least the author of that one book did not, work for one of the involved parties. Also the article is so much centered at US. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E34:EC12:36C0:694A:3DA2:93B6:BB94 (talk) 18:13, 15 February 2023 (UTC)