We're fighting to protect the american way of life man.. You ever been to England? Europe? You ever seen the dinky little shitboxes those people drive around in? My Civic was a land yacht compared to that. Those electric Barbie cars they sell in Walmart would fit more crap in the back. I once picked up a few Brits from the airport in a fullsize V8 Bronco, they thought I was David Friggin Rockafeller. Over there, it would cost you $10 to turn the key on a good truck like that.. $120 or so to fill it.
Seriously though, we do need to work on alternative fuels and energy sources, but in the meantime (and for the foreseeable future) we're tied to dead dinosaur juice. Without it, our economy flounders.. Millions go out of work and starve, and the world destabilizes just that much more. Next thing you know, your neighbor is looking at your brand new Geo Metro saying, "Man, NOBODY needs THAT much car."
Screw the war for oil.. This is a war against the terrorism of sub-subcompact automobiles.