Glass Desert
As an Evil Overlord preparing his empire, I have a cover job. During the normal work day, I chat with my co-workers. The other day this one was going on and on about how the war in Iraq is all about oil. Nevermind the fact that gas prices have doubled since the beginning of this conflict. We did, however, determine a fair compromise to ending this compromise very very fast.
What we need to do is detonate some type of bomb that is SUPER hot, leaves no toxic aftermath, right there in the middle of the desert. All that sand will be turned to glass, the jihadists will be exterminated. True, a few innocents may perish, but this is war, and that sort of thing happens in wars all the time. All we need do then, is to break the glass surface, tap back into the old wells, and drive those oil prices back down.
Another upside to this solution is that the United States will once again be the all powerful super nation in the minds of all the other nations in the world. None will know when we will turn against them. Except for the french. If we haven’t hit them before this plan, they will be next. And soon! We have the power and technology to prove this, but the wishy-washy politicians and spineless liberals, have dragged this great nation almost to the level of france.