the end of oil, the Pentagon and the Carter Doctrine

So the whilst the Bush administration are expending billions of dollars and consuming million of barrels of oil trying to control the supplies of the Middle East, the Pentagon's future as an oil consumer has been analysed and found to be grossly flawed. This enforcement of the Carter Doctrine by military force is actually consuming more oil than it is securing- a laughably counter-productive situation considering the lengths to which Bush et al have gone to initiate the hostilities.