Furthermore at what costs to the environment?

Most Oil Fires Are Out in Kuwait, But Its Environment Is Devastated

( https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/19/world/most-oil-fires-are-out-in-kuwait-but-its-environment-is-devastated.html )

Less than eight months after most of its oil wells were set ablaze by withdrawing Iraqi troops, causing one of the world's great environmental and economic catastrophes, Kuwait has put out most of the fires. Oil-industry officials in the region said this week that all the blazes would be extinguished sometime in November.

More than 700 wells were sabotaged. Yet the speed with which they have been brought under control, and the $1 billion cost so far, have surprised many industry experts. Back in February, most of these experts had predicted that it would take two years and several billion dollars to restore the country's once-thriving oil industry.

"As of today, we have only 87 oil wells on fire," a senior Kuwaiti oil executive said in a telephone interview, "and they are being put out at the rate of two to three a day."

Kuwait's Oil Minister, Hamoud Abdullah al-Raqba, told Parliament earlier this week that 28 teams of oilfield firefighting specialists will complete their work well ahead of a Dec. 23 conference of heads of state of the Gulf Cooperation Council, an alliance of Saudi Arabia and five smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula.

Kuwaiti and Saudi officials said they expected Kuwait's oil exports to increase to 550,000 barrels a day by year's end and 1.3 million barrels a day by December 1992. Before it was invaded by Iraq in August 1990, Kuwait pumped two million barrels daily.

The Lives Lost..
The BILLIONS spent..
The Environment damage done..

Really?

Is this the best we can do?

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoxBG5zdxg )