We have never needed Middle eastern crude. We have plenty.
I have been waiting for a tacticle nuke to go off over some bank in Kyev. The dems have been stealing money from them since USSR broke up. Evidence of their crimes are smack dab in the middle of the war zone.
I thought one of the most interesting parts of Al Jazeera’s in-depth look at gasoline prices was, the US imports and exports crude, and it imports and exports refined product... did you know California is an energy island, too? No pipelines going in, you can’t truck or rail petro products in, California has to import its gas and oil...
...it’s all a heck of a lot more complicated than I could have imagined. Al Jazeera’s experts - all of whom were American, and working for oil or investment companies, so not rabidly communist or pro-Muslim - say they expect Russia to become an energy also-ran in the next few years... Compact says they expect Russia’s energy strengths to defeat the West’s economic pressures. Both are smart sources, and I wish I had some idea which was right...