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What would happen if we dropped Saudi Oil?

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Stiganator

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What would happen if we announced that in 2009 we would no longer purchase oil from Saudi Arabia and by 2015 we would not purchase oil from the Middle East at all?

Reasoning behind this: Seems like many of our recent problems stem from that country 9/11 hijackers, extremist Muslims, human rights violations etc.


 
Nothing would happen. We don't buy from the Saudi's so much as we buy from the market. If we went through the time and expense of separating out Saudi oil from the rest, we would be forced to buy elsewhere. That leaves others buying Saudi oil, or ME oil if you like. Net result? Nothing.
 
Nothing would happen. We don't buy from the Saudi's so much as we buy from the market. If we went through the time and expense of separating out Saudi oil from the rest, we would be forced to buy elsewhere. That leaves others buying Saudi oil, or ME oil if you like. Net result? Nothing.
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If that would be true, US would not buy or boycott oil from Iran

$20 a gallon of gas?
 
Someone else would buy it.

As long as we are not replacing that oil with imports from another country its still a good idea though.
 
We buy around 10% of our oil from the ME -- with most of that coming from the Saudis. All we'd do is buy the oil from somewhere else (Brazil, Russia or just increase how much we receive from Canada and Mexico).
 
Originally posted by: jamesall
Nothing would happen. We don't buy from the Saudi's so much as we buy from the market. If we went through the time and expense of separating out Saudi oil from the rest, we would be forced to buy elsewhere. That leaves others buying Saudi oil, or ME oil if you like. Net result? Nothing.
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If that would be true, US would not buy or boycott oil from Iran

$20 a gallon of gas?
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Oil is distributed in as efficient manner as possible to reduce costs. Tampering with that merely increases the overall price by some percentage. What benefit would there be to that since Iran, Saudi Arabia and the ME as a whole would be unaffected?
 
Why would we not want to purchase oil from Kuwait? UAE?

Kuwait has been out biggest ally in the M.E.

They have contributed more to us when we needed help than any other nation.
 
By the way if we didn't purchase oil from the M.E ...

The U.S military in the M.E would collapse. We purchase all our oil for our military in the M.E from those oil rich Arab nations.

The cost of transporting the oil to the M.E would be HIGH
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
By the way if we didn't purchase oil from the M.E ...

The U.S military in the M.E would collapse. We purchase all our oil for our military in the M.E from those oil rich Arab nations.

The cost of transporting the oil to the M.E would be HIGH
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Pull the military, end of problem.
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
By the way if we didn't purchase oil from the M.E ...

The U.S military in the M.E would collapse. We purchase all our oil for our military in the M.E from those oil rich Arab nations.

The cost of transporting the oil to the M.E would be HIGH
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Shrug. We would buy it from some 3rd party who had purchased it from the M.E. The point of origin and method of delivery probably wouldn't change much. The only difference would probably be the payee on the check and the amount.
 
Originally posted by: Darwin333
Originally posted by: Aimster
By the way if we didn't purchase oil from the M.E ...

The U.S military in the M.E would collapse. We purchase all our oil for our military in the M.E from those oil rich Arab nations.

The cost of transporting the oil to the M.E would be HIGH
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Shrug. We would buy it from some 3rd party who had purchased it from the M.E. The point of origin and method of delivery probably wouldn't change much. The only difference would probably be the payee on the check and the amount.
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That makes no sense at all. We might as well just buy directly from them.
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
Originally posted by: Darwin333
Originally posted by: Aimster
By the way if we didn't purchase oil from the M.E ...

The U.S military in the M.E would collapse. We purchase all our oil for our military in the M.E from those oil rich Arab nations.

The cost of transporting the oil to the M.E would be HIGH
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Shrug. We would buy it from some 3rd party who had purchased it from the M.E. The point of origin and method of delivery probably wouldn't change much. The only difference would probably be the payee on the check and the amount.
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That makes no sense at all. We might as well just buy directly from them.
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Exactly my point.
 
as already mentioned, the US doesn't import a vast quantity of oil from the middle east.

as far as I know, almost all of our "foreign" oil comes from Canada and South America.
 
Getting the troops out of their would solve the problem quite nicely. Then we would could increase our oil from canada or mexico, both of which are closer.
 
Originally posted by: Stiganator
Getting the troops out of their would solve the problem quite nicely. Then we would could increase our oil from canada or mexico, both of which are closer.
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We just need to tell those darn Mexicans and Canadians to start producing us more oil damnit!!
 
Originally posted by: Darwin333
Originally posted by: Stiganator
Getting the troops out of their would solve the problem quite nicely. Then we would could increase our oil from canada or mexico, both of which are closer.
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We just need to tell those darn Mexicans and Canadians to start producing us more oil damnit!!
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They can just add them to the lawsuit when the dems file against opec.
 
Oil is fungible, I don't see why it would matter. They'll sell it to country X and we'll buy some more from country Y. It'll work out the same in the end, just with increased shipping costs.
 
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