Or maybe if we had a couple hundred thousand troops stationed in an oil-producing nation…

…oh, wait, we did. Fine, I’ll settle for the teleportation option.

One more thing: let’s say we were freed from the chains of modern, oil-driven transportation by the invention and mass production of Star Trek-style teleportation…but the only things powerful enough to make those teleporters work were nuclear reactors.

Whose head would explode first?