Its the duty of the government to provide for defense. Has anyone asked how the Pentagon expected to fight a sustained war in the Middle-East, when the US has a limited supply of oil? The US has known since at least the 1973 oil embargo that it cannot rely on oil-producing States to provide petroleum. Nobody seems to have considered that the US Military requires a huge amount of oil to cross the battlefield, then there are fuel trucks that supply the machines, and other fuel trucks that supply the fuel trucks. It has nothing to do with support for this war, which I ardently don't, but with the ability of the military to fight any war. Which I do, begudgingly. It would be wonderful if the world did not need military...but right now it seems to. Perhaps the Pentagon procured diesel trucks that can run on vegetable oil just in case of this contingency, because then I would know where we can get fuel for them.