Quite frankly, I can't really get a firm sense about what you're trying to say in either of your posts taken separately, but this part:

With a commodity that has been under production by nature for sixty million years really be owned by an ephemeral government like that of Saddam's, which was in power for about 23 years? Trees and cattle and goats, they are property with definite ownership rights. Oil? Hmmm.

...looks to me like you're suggesting that oil should be for whoever takes it from the ground, and your 12:27 post looks like it's in support of your 11:44 AM post.

If this is not the point you were trying to make, I would love to have a better understanding of what your point actually was.