[PC99]

Not that anything he says is false, but if you’d ask me 20 years ago if I thought a US President would be in the position to repeatedly beg the Saudis to increase oil production, and would be rebuffed, I wouldn’t have said it was gonna happen.

[reformedliberal]

I have been wondering if we haven’t lost our leverage w/Saudi, which, as I understnd it, involves their security.

What would prevent China or Russia from offering security to the Saudis?

[MNJohnnie]

What do you expect? For 30 years the Democrats, with the help of a few Republicans, have pushed the “conservation not consumption” Energy policy. Thanks to the Democrats absolute refusal to consider ANY production of our own energy resources all that is left is the President to go hat in hand and ask the Saudis for more.

Maybe if we quit buying this mindless demagoguery that has been pouring out of the Democrats since 1978, (Windfall profit tax, investigate big oil, increaser CFE standards etc) we might finally realize that WE are the problem here. Not OPEC, not “Big OIl” US with our stupid notions that we could have all the absurd Green policies while never having to pay an economic cost for those polices

[CRBDeuce]

15 yard penalty...

you’ve exceeded your 3 strawmen limit

[Shanty Shaker]

Pay attention - The Saudis are in trouble when the US starts subsidizing nuclear. This was a real issue at the last OPEC meeting. Bush was just letting them know this.

[calex59]

Actually I would have thought that 20 years ago a president would have been able to say what he had and more drilling would have been initiated.