[TheDon]

It is a little known fact that the Civil War was actually fought over oil.

[Thorondir]

That's right, and the Pope is a closet NAZI, and communism really really works in theory (but just hasn't been tried right yet), and Dick Cheny has another human face growing under his shirt like in that totall Recall movie, and Bush Sr. made a secret deal just before the election, and, and, and, I have to throw up!

[kezekiel]

It is a little known fact that the Civil War was actually fought over oil.

Yes, but behind that, I suspect, was Abraham Lincoln's desire to usher in the modern police state.