Originally Posted by Robbie

Exactly. It's American oil companies living there and getting the oil to begin with. No way in hell the U.S. govt. wants to actually TAKE the oil and make it cheap. lol

Our oil companies WANT it to be expensive. And they also want to make sure that they can keep it flowing...as do the Arab countries. Everybody gets rich...except us and the goat herders on the ground in the Mid East