[petertare]

If Israel strikes, and Iran shuts off the oil supply to the world market, we could have an energy crisis like never before seen. This is going to be a real mess. It could call for an emergency take over of some M.E. oil fields. We need to go back to drilling here in the US and using nuke power...

[Perdogg]

That’s why the US ( or Israel) should strike now and not in the fall or the dead of winter.

[NonValueAdded]

Indeed, it is why the RAT “oh, it will take too long” argument is so maddening. It isn’t a matter of if anymore; it’s a matter of when someone pops a nuke. Where really doesn’t matter (except to the folks local to it, of course). The markets will tank everywhere. And that’s only one reason to DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW.

[Polybius]

If Israel strikes, and Iran shuts off the oil supply to the world market, we could have an energy crisis like never before seen.

What do you mean "if Iran shuts off the oil supply to the world market"?

Don't you think the Iranians have tried that before?

The Guns of '88: Lessons of the Forgotten Tanker War

Operation Praying Mantis

That's not an oil tanker on fire. That's the Iranian frigate IS SAHAND (74).

If you mean that Iran will keep every drop of Iranian oil out of the market, then that, in effect, is a self-imposed blockade on Iran that the U-Boat fleets could only dream of in the case of Great Britain. The World can do without Iranian oil but Iran cannot survive without money.

In either case, Iran is only putting a gun to it's head and pulling the trigger.

[Munz]

We need to drill correct.
I just hope that if ... when .... Israel does strike they take this into consideration and that they hold some fields as their own.
They could help their own side by exporting the crude while they ransom it off.

[freebird5850]

The only thing that still gets me is that we have to store the nuclear waste for hundreds if not thousands of years.