CLIMATE CHANGE
Fifty Years Later, the U.S. Is Still OPEC’s Bitch
Does anybody really care?
In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an oil embargo against the United States. The cost of oil began a permanent trend towards ever higher prices and resulted in long lines at gas stations, sometimes for miles. You would think that would have been a catalyst for change. It was not.
The only thing that has changed since those days besides the unending climb in the price of oil? The names of the rulers involved. In Saudi Arabia, the ruler’s name is Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz. He’s a prince in the House of Saud, which rules the country with an iron fist from its yachts in Monaco and other toney European locales filled with scantily clad women, booze, and gambling.
The Butcher of Riyadh, for those of you unfamiliar with his antics, is the Saudi leader that the CIA says turned the building that houses the Saudi diplomatic mission in Ankara, Turkey, into a butcher shop. On the menu that day? A “dissident” Saudi journalist named Jamal Khashoggi. His crime? Being a journalist.
On the U.S. side, we have Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. He was sworn in as Delaware’s junior senator the same year that the oil embargo elevated U.S. prices into the stratosphere and…
