This piece began in KTB #153.

From KTB #153 through KTB #167 last month, we have been reading about the multi-national oil companies who helped to give us World War II. As reported, the Luftwaffe attacked England in the Battle of Britain – with fuel from Standard Oil in their tanks. When the Royal Air Force went up to defend their country, their fighters had fuel from Standard Oil in their tanks. And when the Japanese fleet attacked the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor – they too had fuel from Standard Oil in their tanks.

We have been told by various U-Bootfahrer that Shell Oil was a major source of fuel for them.

Prior to the American entry into the war, Thorkold Reiber, the Director of Texaco Oil, stated in an interview with LIFE Magazine, that any U-Boat Skipper who saw a Texaco tanker helping any Allied ship – that he (Reiber) gave his permission to the U-Boat Skipper to sink the Texaco tanker!

And now we are seeing that Saddam Hussein is being portrayed as an international boogie man – he very well may be just that – but look at the price of gasoline in early 2003! It has risen no less than fifty cents per gallon in just a few months in the United States, and much more in other areas. Does anyone really think that World War II and several follow on wars are about anything BUT oil and the multi-national oil companies? Okay, enough editorials – you can make your own decision on this as you wish.