[Publius6961]

So what do we do when OPEC tells our courts to pack sand, go to war for oil?

Well, for starters, we can stop all aid to members of OPEC everywhere, and their allies.

Next is a technical embargo; any American company that uses foreign subsidiaries pays a price. They can buy from Europe? Great. They deserve each other.

Finally, there's the potential for a "food and high tech" embargo. The possibilities are limited only by our imagination.

What are they gonna do? Cut off access to the American tourist industry to Yemen?

[businessprofessor]

They could retaliate in many ways. The idea is lunacy. The WTO is the only vehicle to seek redress. But I do not think that the WTO covers OPEC and oil production. This idea is typical rat speak. Ignore the obvious solutions and bring in the lawyers.

[nomad]

You`re forgeting China and the rest of Asia as well as Europe. The rest of the world for that matter. I agree that we should`t be sending them any aid, money or other kind, but, if we tried to file a suit of some kind they`d just laugh in our faces and tell us to go to hell. Besides freebie aid, any embargo would mostly hurt our already hurting industries. Lets just finally tell the watermelons to f*** off and drill/mine for our own energy, while beginning the long task of R&D for real alternates.

BTW, does anyone realize that methane can be catalytically converted to methanol? I heard in addition to billions of barrels of oil, we have 70 trillion cubic ft. of methane out there, wonder how much alcohol that would make?

[SampleMan]

What are they gonna do? Cut off access to the American tourist industry to Yemen?

Refuse to sell us oil. That's what I would do, right after laughing loudly and telling the whiners suing me to pack sand.