Let's see. Here appears to be Dick Cheney's secret energy policy ( and a really good reason it should never have been allowed to be secret).

1. Invade a bunch of countries with a lot of oil.

2. Burn up a lot of oil and money (and kids; no big deal) conquering these oil countries, then suck out the oil and sell it to replace the oil and money (but not the kids; again no big deal) and make a tidy profit.

I am sure that it looked good in the bunker, but the best laid plans gang aft agley (Bobbie Burns) and suddenly all that oil we had conquered started being sold to other places, and the wars had so angered the rest of the world that even those nations we did NOT attack started selling their oil someplace else!

Good planning. Really marvelous thinking. Really.