To the Last Drop

Maybe oil-addicted America can turn tricks for the Saudis.

Saudi Arabia gave President Bush the appropriate response to his petulant begging for more oil last week, and it basically amounted to telling him he could go back to his fake ranch and buy a Prius. The Saudis are surely tired of being treated like dope dealers for some mainlining heroin addict who’s out of cash. It’s not their fault that millions of Americans are still tooling around in Canyoneros that get 8 miles a gallon and building gigantic houses with 40-mile commutes to the city.

Of course it is not just GOP oil junkies who seem to think the Saudis can wish away the problem of dwindling oil supplies. The Democratic-controlled Senate is pushing for legislation to pull arms funding from Saudi Arabia if they don’t pump more oil. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for stopping weapons sales to brutal dictatorships, and particularly to the corrupt, misogynist Neptocrats running that country, but does no one understand that there is no more oil to pump?

Observers have been warning for years that Saudi Arabia may not have the excess capacity that it used to