[Ada Coddington]

By your logic, then, the Arab boycott of the United States for supporting Israel would have been impossible ... heck, OPEC itself would be impossible. Please try to reconcile your views with history...

Boycotts and cartels cannot last very long (the 1974 boycott did not if you remember). If the price is right, someone is always willing to sell.

[dirtboy]

Boycotts and cartels cannot last very long (the 1974 boycott did not if you remember). If the price is right, someone is always willing to sell.

OPEC had us by the short and curlies until the early eighties. You may wish to re-enact the economic woes of the Seventies with your foreign policy ideas, but I'd rather not go there...