Looking for oil

The US is "addicted to oil." But how do we as a nation get more oil reserves? Oil companies typically explore and drill, but this method is becoming more costly. Our oil based administration found a way to make it fairer for everyone instead of putting the burden on the poor cash strapped oil companies. Go to war for oil. After Kuwait (Cheney was Sec of Def.) we learned that we could get oil by taking it from countries that have it. Usually this is called imperialism but we prefer to call it (you're choice) "spreading democracy," "fighting terrorism," "finding weapons of mass destruction," "freeing the Iraqi people" (God, I hope I never have to be freed by the US government becasue there's a lot of "colateral damaged" with that. The cheapest way to deal with energy is to find cheaper forms of energy, or conservation, but honestly regardless of all the death, going to war is not cheap especially when you have a rumsfeld, a cheney and a wolfowitz leading the charge.