```If the disruption in Saudi Arabia is prolonged, "sanctioned Iran supplies are another source of potential additional oil," Bordoff said. "But [US President Donald] Trump has already shown he is willing to pursue a maximum pressure campaign even when oil prices spike. If anything, the risk of tit-for-tat regional escalation that pushes oil prices even higher has gone up significantly."

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry "stands ready" to tap the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to steady oil markets if necessary, a department spokesperson said in a statement. The country's backup oil reserves, which are held in storage for emergencies, hold 630 million barrels of crude, an Energy Department official said.```

>world uses 100,000,000 barrels a day
>US Government thinks 630,000,000 barrels could let the country Outlast any armed conflict induced cost spikes.

Yeah that was kinda my concern too.

Like uhhh, that's lookin kinda light.

But the US also has an evil jewish money printing machine.

US uses over 20,000,000 barrels a day

So the us has a months worth of oil stocked for emergencies.

Genius.

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Guess it's time to invade Venezuela then.

Sure would be nice to have some of that there uhhhh.

Biggest oil reserves in the world.

The us can be energy sufficient within ten years

It already is

It just wouldn’t be as cheap

Yeah I dunno if people wanna wait 10 years.

For gas prices to go down.

They have before

1970s

Yeah the economy in the 1970s was much better than it is now

>shock to the global energy market thanks to some drones

Lookin a little fragile there guys

Globalism fragile

*whaaaaaaatttt*

Who would’ve guessed not having every nation self sufficient would be more unstable

"The US can be self sufficient in 10 years."

This is what the tankies swear to me.

well it _could_

it would just upend the established financial order

and the price of energy would skyrocket

because fracking is fake and gay

soudns liek we need more drones

to striek saudi arabian oil reserves

imagine what woudl happen if it blew up half or all of them

what woudl happen

would the gas prices jsut go up to like 80 dollars a gallon or soem shit overnight

would niggas be stealin it?

that'd be neat

ANARCHY

Time to admit thorium generators work super fine

@Necrosisinthebutt Warforged Creation Forges except it's thorium powered genetics labs where China starts developing Chinese superhumans with their complete mastery of Gene manipulation because they're the only culture that isn't run by religious moral pussies.

ahahaha