Why would Mr. Boucher need a sarcasm tag?
In centuries past, it was common to deny food, water and medical relief to your enemies. Why would this be any different? The oil cartel is our enemy, make our enemy suffer. I don’t believe in sending humanitarian help of any kind to people who hate us.
Our enemy? The leading foreign exporters of oil to the United States are Canada and Mexico. And of course STILL a large percentage of oil is produced domestically. All oil and oil producers are NOT the enemy. That attitude will ruin us, we should be encouraging the oil industry to increase oil production and rifing capabilities. Not villifying them.
The oil cartel is an enemy who has us by the family jewels, thanks to our refusal to drill for oil and build nukes in this country.
We cut off their food & medicine (which most of their people never see anyway) and a few more people die, but nothing really changes.
They cut off our oil supply and trigger an economic collapse in this country.