"Right, and if you bomb Mecca, you'll send the global economy into a swandive off the edge of a cliff."
And just what would happen to our economy if we got nuked? The entire world economy would plummet. Investers would dump stocks and rush for gold. Our currency would plummet as well, oddly helping our exports, BTW.
And yes, gas would be outrageously high. If the US gets nuked, I sincerely hope we have cobalt [neutron] bomb capability and simply neutron the oil facilities of the Saudis, taking them over. If we are unable to liberate Iran, we would have to annihilate Iran as well, seizing what oil facilities we can. Without plenty of immediate oil access, our war would stall. And with the leverage of oil, we could have even more arrows in the quiver of the war against terror.
The only logical thing to do, if we nuke Mecca, is to annihilate the Saudis, topple the Iranian regime, annihilate Syria, and contemplate the nuclear neutering of Pakistan through pre-emptive measures. We would also have to keep a wary eye on Turkey and Egypt. And, we should then go to Kosovo and throw all the Islamics there in camps. Albania should be MOABed to uninhabited rubble as well, and the US government should auction off Albanian real estate for war funds.
We don't. Clinton gave that technology to the Chinese.