Oil and Power

Oil and Power

Because oil ultimately controls production in the modern world and therefore controls the global economy through means of lobbyists, blackmail, and terrorism.    
In the modern world power is attained and fought for in various mediums, whether they are war or politics humans have an underline want for power. One of the most precious and sought after commodities would be oil, the fossil fuel which is the basis for all civilized life. This reality of oil’s stranglehold on modern life is summarized perfectly in the novel The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler, in the novel Toffler discusses the different states or waves mankind goes through and the power that defines each wave. The Third of these waves beginning at the industrial revolution, this is when man shifted power from land and status to production and profits. According to Toffler power no longer resides with the one dishing out the latest product, but instead the power belongs to those who give us the power to make it possible. With almost all of modern machinery dependent on fossil fuels that power resides with the oil corporations.
After the events of World War II the industrial market saw a gigantic boom in productivity, not only was military production in high demand but the commend consumer also became a variable market. This spike in production had a huge demand for oil and energy to continue feeding it, and although countries like the United States had fared well producing its own oil for not only themselves but for other countries as well, the wells began to dry.   Because the U.S was not meeting their own oil quotas they were forced to search elsewhere, placing heavy pressure to fill the numbers on the country of Venezuela, who at the time was the second largest oil producer. These oil quotas had many political ramifications after going into effect when Venezuela demanded more revenues from the oil they were producing for the U.S, to which the United States refused.   In April of 1959 Perez Alfonzo...