Wouldn't it be most practical to continue buying most of our oil from Canada and Mexico while shifting our consumption from Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East to Venezuela and Brazil?
I know people freak out over Chavez, but he's not connected to an ideology that funds terror against us. Saudi Arabia is.
If we just spent less time messing with the Middle East and South Asia while improving our relations with Latin America, we'd probably be better off both in terms of making alliances and in establishing an oil trade mostly unaffected by the turmoil between Iran, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.
Besides, Brazil is set to become a major oil supplier anyway.
And of course, we could increase domestic drilling and refining.
I know people freak out over Chavez, but he's not connected to an ideology that funds terror against us. Saudi Arabia is.
If we just spent less time messing with the Middle East and South Asia while improving our relations with Latin America, we'd probably be better off both in terms of making alliances and in establishing an oil trade mostly unaffected by the turmoil between Iran, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.
Besides, Brazil is set to become a major oil supplier anyway.
And of course, we could increase domestic drilling and refining.