Oh, that's right, they aren't thinking, that is why Crazy Hugo Chavez is on his way to buy lots of weapons from Putin with his oil money and why Iran can saber rattle -- oil money and Putin tells us to stuff it -- Oil money... and yet, the people we elect continue to say nay to drilling on our own shores.
The only way it makes sense is oil is "allowed" out of the ground when it pays for trouble(arms).