Originally Posted by Superbelt

We do not rely on middle eastern oil very much. That's been shown pretty well here already. We go more for other sources like Canada (primary) Venezuela and Russia is becoming more popular.

The thing is that the rest of the world relies heavily on the Middle East. Europe, Japan etc.

We act like policement in the middle east to keep the oil prices stable in that region so that the rest of the world doesn't start trying to infringe on the supplies of oil that we are drawing from.

Indirectly all oil is connected. The fact that we draw such a tremendous amount of oil every day helps drive the international oil market. We are the reason oil prices are where they are.

So, shunning Saudi Oil means nothing unless we get the rest of our allies in Europe and Asia to do the same. Course the real solution is to wean us off of Oil, first by shunning unnecessarially wasteful vehicles and wasteful appliances rather than encourage them as an American right. And then finding alternative fuel sources. Until then the Saudi's have the world by the balls.