Why oil is the enemy of democracy « Thread Started on Aug 2, 2007, 6:44am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Why oil is the enemy of democracy By Daniel HannanLast Updated: 12:01am BST 01/08/2007read at source> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main ... 105.xmlThe anti-war crowd is right. It is all about oil - although perhaps not in the way it means. Consider some of the current threats to global stability: Russia's contempt for international norms, Iran's nuclear ambitions, the massacres in Darfur, the descent of South America into Leftist authoritarianism. All these crises are oil-fuelled.