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You need to appease SA until you get energy independence. You also need to work towards energy independence in the meantime.
by tomp 6y ago
You need to appease SA until you get energy independence. You also need to work towards energy independence in the meantime.
- toiletfuneral 6y agoAre you saying we need to have a certain level of tolerance for dismemberment of journalists? You must really love trump to die on this hill lol
- madhadron 6y agoOr we just take over Saudi Arabia and eliminate the House of Saud. Probably cheaper in the long run and eliminates the morons who funded Wahabism into a major threat.
- tomp 6y agoBecause that has worked out so well with Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.
- cirgue 6y agoYou really don’t. What are they going to do? Raise prices? The only reason we’re not swimming in US oil right now is that a huge chunk of the permian basin is profitable at 80 but not at 65.
- mindslight 6y agoIt seems you're trying to imply some causality whereby Trump can take credit for Biden's current policy, even though it's only been a few years. If you want to make that argument, do so explicitly. In the short term, obtaining energy independence is helped by no longer appeasing SA. When oil prices are higher, domestic production becomes profitable. That's if the current prices aren't just a result of the SA strategy of periodically flooding the market to bankrupt high-overhead producers. As for your "we’ll see if there’s a grand strategy behind it", that strategy is obviously domestic production and renewables. Looking forwards instead of looking backwards.