It doesn't cause any effective change in prices for anyone, save for shipping port distance costs that might be negligibly greater for everyone.
On the military equipment, we can sell that to the Saudis or they can buy elsewhere, but in the end, they should protect their own d@mn selves with their own d@mn riches.
Am I now clear?
And one other point...maybe semantics.... You are not making any money during construction, so how could you be in a break-even point in the first place? Again, my asseratation that the term break even includes both construction, operation, and transportation of product,
Ok, now I know what ‘sell them that too’ means, which is helpful.
On oil, we are absolutely placed at a disadvantage if we choose to ‘boycott’ Saudi oil in multiple ways. One cost, as taking one customer out of our equation will definitely cost us more. If we are willing to pay more, then perhaps this is worthwhile. Second, a boycott will not endear ourselves very much with SA so they will be tightening relations with our real enemies, which cannot be good for this country. Real enemies like China and Russia have real power, not power like countries in ME do.
As far them paying for military to protect them, it sure seems reasonable to me. It cannot be a one way street, although our economy does benefit by having abundant oil on the world market as cheap as possible. Means it is not a one way street unless, once again, we choose to pay more regardless.
I have been in favor for years of doing away with the ME problems by simply divvying up the entire theater to the world powers. Maybe we can take SA, the Russians take Iran, China Iraq and Europe the rest.
We, not they, have the power to destroy. Wanton terrorism like what the Western World has experienced since the early 70s’(which coincides with the rise of OPEC BTW) is inhuman and deserves inhuman rebuttal. I am talking about treating the terrorists and countries who harbor them the same way we are treated. Kill them, as well as those who harbor them, whether family or whatever. We just do not have the resolve to execute that unless we have another WW, and survival is at stake.