NO
No, but their influence just went up a lot.
YES!
The biggest problem with Obama is that he thinks oil can be easily replaced by windmills and solar panels. He thinks this is all obsolete. He doesn’t see the middle east with the same eyes China and Russia do.
Maybe people should stop thinking about oil as a commodity and investment and start thinking of it as a tool ... a way and means to manufacturing (f’rinstance) ... transportation
As long as those policies are basic regulations, taxes and fees similar to other industries and no subsidies, okay.
And collaterally, Congress needs to move forward on legislation that will end the misguided decades-old law banning American firms from selling oil into world markets.
Absolutely. Export our expensive light sweet while import cheap heavy sour that our refineries are already optimized to used. More BTU's per barrel for us, more drilling and production for us, lower gasoline prices, more world supply.
Obola has no intention of advancing the interests of the United States in any way, shape, or form.
I hope the russkies nuke the saudis. We should have on 9/12.
Not yet but it wouldn't surprise me if that is not on Putin's Bucket List.
Actually, it may not be a bad thing. We would simply be forced to develop our own resources.
OPEC is a toothless tiger...
None of their members follow the pricing agreements and cheat all the time...
And the Chinese are there, trying to have an oil source that doesn’t sell to the US and Europe.
Either way, ISIS must be taken out. We had our chance and blew it. We are so blind and inept that we think it is merely a battle of supporting the correct terrorists. It is just embarrassing to be an American in 2015.
Look at a map. Syria is not far away from Saudi Arabia.
How far do the Russian planes have to fly to hit the oil loading facilities for Saudi Arabia?
If Russia controls Saudi Arabia, then they would control the #2 and #3 oil producing areas. If they cripple the Saudi’s ability to sell oil, then they cripple the #3 producer in the world.
Would that affect us?
Look at our economy. Look at our people. Look at Europe and Japan and South Korea.
The history of humanity is a history of misery. We have had it good for several decades, but the history of humanity is misery.
Do you want that for your grandkids?
It may be that Putin is just helping his buddy Assad and that’s all he wants to do.
I don’t trust him.
He needs to know that if anybody.....anybody, comes out of Syria with any kind of a weapon, they will be destroyed.
FSA, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syrian Army, Russian, Chinese.....it doesn’t matter. They will be destroyed.
Our President needs to make this clear to everyone including the citizens of The United States.
He isn’t doing that.
Why not?
And why are the Democrats dithering around about Hillary Clinton. They need to put some backbone in their President.