Reply #21: No governments subjugate people because they are allowed to...

[Ozymanithrax]

by their own people. Revolutions happen when people reach a critical level of misery. It has nothing to do with energy. We are part of an oil civilizaton, so oil is often part of reason for war. But if we lived in the bronze age we would fight wars for other reasons.

There will always be governments that do that.

Chimpanzees make war. That kind of conflict goes back to our common ancestors, and oil or the lack there of will not solve that problem.