Presently, oil is the world’s primary source of energy. It is used to power our massive transportation and agricultural sectors, produce countless commercial goods and services, and, in many parts of the world, to produce electricity. With a growing world population, our thirst for oil is steadily growing. As a finite resource that can only develop under certain geological circumstances, conflicts will continue to arise and, perhaps, escalate as oil dependent nations vie for access to oil, oil producing nations fight to secure and control fields and distribution points, and those presently in power struggle to maintain the status quo. To learn about areas of the world that are suffering the effects of public oil companies, national oil companies, and corrupt government agents vying for petroleum resources, check out:

• Our Current Conflicts section Or
• How Oil Terror(ism) has us in its grip