I say we nuke Riyadh and take the oil fields by force. Eisenhower should never have allowed that bunch of savages to nationalize them. If anyone so much as looks cross eyed at us for doing it, nuke them too.
Bulldoze Mecca and make it a golf course.
And when the price of gasoline goes to $25.00 per gallon, will you remember your words?
By the way, we had a golf course where we lived. It was all sand and we carried a square-foot piece of green astro-truf to hit off of each shot. A small amount of oil was put on the sand to keep it from blowing away.
The "green" was a MUCH darker sand, with a lot more petroleum on it to keep it down. We had to KNOCK THE TAR our of the ball to make the putt.
After each foursome finished a Pakistani guy would come off his spot in the shade of a small roof with a HUGE broom and "sweep" the greens to make them smooth.
My husband was an avid golfer. His normal handicap was 8-10 or so. But over there, on camp, with the FREE little driving range and nine-hole golf course, he got down to SCRATCH golf. Wow.
Our company would hold tournaments all the time: women's, men's handicap and men's scratch. At the quarterly golf club dinners awards were given out: CRYSTAL.
I LOVED it as I watched the bright RED crystal boxes stack up in front of me, THANKS to my "scratch" golfer hubby.
We are stuck with the Saudis because WE are their BIGGEST CUSTOMER. When their petroleum and natural gas run out...then we will use our own resources.
We play it right: USE UP OTHERS' RESOURCES FIRST, then use our own.