Friday night I was taking a NYC cab home, my driver was a Pakistani and he was listening to the BBC which started discussing recent gas/oil prices.
He blurted out quite seriosuly that America "should just invade Saudi Arabia and take their gas". "They don't have any army and the young people all want to be American".
Nothing like prices at the pump to spur public opinion.
By the end of the summer, drivers will be screaming to drill ANWR and invade Iran already.
If we invade Iran pre-emptively, it will lower oil prices about as much as invading Iraq did : they will double.