Spock (rhp)
it won't. and KSA isn't going to do that because they NEED America to preserve their freedom from Iran [Iran has three times as many people as KSA]
humpty
I have no money invested in anything Saudi. I have kept every dollar in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, aside from a well drilling crew I keep working in Bangladesh as a mitzvah to provide potable water where there is none. If the Saudis break relations it will not affect me significantly. In fact, since I have invested in wind farms in Alberta and Montana as well as the company that makes the machines themselves it will probably make me richer.
That being said, for those who have not or cannot divest themselves in an economy good manners and morals should have warned them away from, like President Trump and the Kushner family, the hit will be significant, unless the Saudis protect them as a courtesy the same way Bush 2 evacuated the bin Ladn family after 9/11.
We don't need Saudi oil, and if Trump would realize that Iran is the ideal counterweight to balance the Saudis in trhe Middle East, and that it is the Saudis who pay the Wahabi clerics who spread jihad throughout the Muslim world, we never will. Iran would sell to us readily if we stopped selling arms to the Saudis.
Did I mention I am known in Bangladesh? That Muslim country is in danger of being radicalized because tighty percent of the teachers are Wahabi Muslim clerics paid by Saudi Arabia. The other twenty percent are paid for by Canada, our closest ally, and the Wahabi send their students to disrupt those classes.
But I digress. Business and the marketplace will find a way to survive without the Saudis. Gas will go up not because of actual disruption but because the sellers can claim it happened, or might, and this will speark inflation that I doubt our current Congress or President are equipped to handle. That is the real danger to our economy.
Snid
Gas prices will go up.
Anonymous
We won’t get jet fuel any more. The only other country who has it, is Iran.
Anonymous
It won’t!