Know Blood for Oil

An oil worker walks toward a drill rig after placing ground monitoring equipment in the vicinity of the underground horizontal drill in Loving County, Texas, on Nov. 22, 2019. Angus Mordant/Reuters

Commentary

During President George H.W. Bush’s 1991 Persian Gulf War, protesters took up the slogan, “No Blood for Oil”—the filthy, lucrative, greenhouse gas-producing commodity being an obscene cause for anyone to die for. But oil is not the devil’s venom all too many have been convinced it is.