[nagdt]

Can this country get by without Saudi oil? Perhaps we need a new thread to answer this question. I say yes. It's an uneducated answer, but we HAVE to follow through with our promise to consider anyone helping or harboring the terrorists our enemy. Saudi Arabia apparantly falls into this category.

[stilts]

If the action in Afghanistan results in stability in this country than all the pieces will be in place to develop the vast oil and gas reserves are Central Asia. Afganistan is needed for the pipeline that would get the oil and gas from the fields to that Arabian Sea where it can then be shipped to the various markets. This should result in lower prices as supply increases and the removal of the oil weapon from the hands of the Arabs. At that point Saudi Arabia and the rest of the state sponsors of terrorism can be "addressed" without concern for our allies dependence on Arab oil.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Saudis supply 60 percent of the world's oil.