If it's all about oooooooooil...
...the US should be invading Canada any day now. ;-)
"Estimates of Canada’s oil reserves jumped from 4.9 billion barrels to 180 billion this year, making the country the second-largest oil reserve in the world, according to an annual survey conducted by the Oil and Gas Journal. The change catapults Canada ahead of Iraq in terms of reserve size, and decreases OPEC’s share of the world’s oil reserves by more than 10 percent."
http://www.geotimes.org/mar03/NN_canada.html