Long run
Not long after the main battles are won, the Arab world is demanding an Iraqi government, and the cease of occupation by the USA:
"If the U.S. wants to prove that we Arabs are wrong about this being an occupation for oil and the protection of Israel, it should transfer the whole file to the U.N.," said Hassan Nasaa, chairman of the political science department at Cairo University.
That means that we will shift toward alternative fuels sooner than expected.