According to a Guardian article written by Britain’s former Environmental Minister Michael Meacher, on September 6, 2003: ” ‘The overriding motivation [for the U.S. war on terror]…is that the U.S. and the UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies. By 2010 the Muslim world will control as much as 60% of the world’s oil production and, even more importantly, 95% of remaining global oil export capacity. As demand is increasing, so supply is decreasing, continually since the 1960s.’ ”
– Amy Goodman with David Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers, Page 39