How come italy had fuel concerns in ww2? Didn't they occupy lybia? Doesn't lybia have a lot of oil?
>>16555613Oil was discovered later in Libya and honestly, I don't think it really would have made that huge of a difference. There were other things holding the Axis back like their limited industry in comparison to the allies, logistics, the allies just having more resources in general, leadership that was opening new fronts left, right, and center to distract from the last front they started fighting on etc.
>>16555613there is a lot more to make fuel than just finding it in the ground, digging hole, and extracting it, you need to actually refine it which is a whole process and industry of itself
>>16555613>Doesn't lybia have a lot of oil?It does, but it's very deep and the tech to extract it at low enough cost to make it worth the effort wasn't around until the 50s.
