Oil is used in thousands of ways and it is becoming harder to find , it WILL run out.

Because of this other forms of creating or harnessing energy need to be found , nuclear energy suffered set backs because of incidents like Long Island and of course Chernobyl. The other avenues being explored are Hydro, Solar, Wind and of course Hydrogen cells, oil will gradualy be phased out and energy production will be a major priority . The inability of the US to provide sufficient energy at a reasonable price will see a decline in the economy and brown and blackouts will become more common , this is why America (gov) feels the need to gain control over the existing stocks of oil even if it means fabricating bullshit about WMD and pretending they are there to liberate the people of Iraq. If Saddam was attacked as claimed because he had ties with Bin Laden then surely Bush should also be implicated.

http://www.bushnews.com/binladens.htm
http://icpj.org/afghanistan.html