22920, you seem to think that the world would not be able to meet it's demand for oil if you couldn't take Iraq's, have you forgotten about the rest of the oil in the middle-east, Russia, China, Europe, America not to mention oil from off-shore drilling operations? You also fail to mention other sources of fuel such as solar, wind, water and even nuclear and other sources being developed as we speak, indeed some people claim we have alternatives now but that they are supressed and hidden from the mainsteam population.