Comments on: U.S. Announces Massive Arms Deal With Saudi Arabia http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/72842/u-s-announces-massive-arms-deal-with-saudi-arabia.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: charliehall http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/72842/u-s-announces-massive-arms-deal-with-saudi-arabia.html#comment-199913 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:52:01 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=72842#comment-199913 Your sister,

The US may not have enough oil reserves left to supply our own needs — most of the known oil fields are declining in production now. It is technologically possible to increase oil production from marginal fields and by manufacturing synthetic petroleum from coal, but those methods are not economical today. Would Americans be willing to pay $10 for a gallon of gasoline just so that we can produce all the petroleum domestically? Probably not. And the extraction of coal from the ground is very dangerous for miners and for the environment.

FWIW the US gets more oil from Mexico and Canada than from Saudi Arabia.

]]> By: charliehall http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/72842/u-s-announces-massive-arms-deal-with-saudi-arabia.html#comment-199912 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:48:16 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=72842#comment-199912 This probably also is to strengthen the Saudis against a potential invasion from Iran, which has a much larger military. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

]]> By: Your Sister http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/72842/u-s-announces-massive-arms-deal-with-saudi-arabia.html#comment-199904 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:27:34 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=72842#comment-199904 Somehow I suspect this is also about insuring that America has a steady, oil supply. Why we can’t supply ourselves with crude is another question.

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