[breckenedge]

That’s fascinating, I hadn’t come across that. Britain must have needed a ridiculous amount of oil as they were also importing from Mexico at the time. According to Tuchman’s The Zimmerman Telegram, Mexican oil is one of the big reasons that Germany tried to form an alliance with Mexico. Cutting off that oil would have hindered their navy.

[kingcharles]

How much oil did Britain need? We always had access to our own oil reservoirs too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil

It looks like the Germans had access to it, also?

[MomoXenosaga]

The British Navy was vastly more powerful and would have had little trouble blockading Mexico and sinking any German oil tankers. The resources of colonial empires decided the victors of both world wars in my opinion.