The answer is just follow Bushie's example.

The Question? How to lose an oil War.

"For all of the talk about American soldiers not dying for oil, the hard truth of the Second Iraq War is that the U.S. has never had enough troops in Iraq to secure the country. And securing the country means protecting and controlling Iraq’s critical resources: the oil fields, pipelines, and refineries that provide nearly all of the country’s revenues. That didn’t happen. And it still hasn’t happened."

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