Here’s the deal.  When a new oil field is found that could increase our current reserve supply by 50% and it is not enough to put a dent in our dependence on petroleum from the Middle East we have a bigger problem than even Al Gore can imagine.  And he’s the dweeb that dreamed up the Man-Bear-Pig scare out in Colorado.  So what do we do?

I say that we stage a hostile take over — of Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. 

That’s right, we waltz right in and just fucking take the oil.  Now we’ll have to do something to keep them from being totally pissed so we declare them the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd states.  I don’t care which order we take them in, because that’s just another set of dates for kids to learn in school.  Hell, for that matter we could combine them all into one new state and be done with it.  Then, when we bring in oil from them it’s not us importing oil anymore.  Now we are getting it from our new states.  Thus our dependence on imported oil goes way way down.

Look, it’s not like we are not occupying the region now.  This is simply expanding our grasp and making it legal.  In exchage we can give them our civil liberties and a better structure of laws and governance.  Granted the welfare rolls will explode, but with the dividend of cheap oil I think we can afford a few more liberals living off the government teat.