Saudis want to charge US for using less oil

If you thought the executives at Goldman Sachs were the kings of backroom finance, think again. Goldman Sachs, meet Saudi King Abdullah.

[gossamer]

When is Obama flying there to give them a check?

[dos]

This is like a water company that construct a new plant, charges people more money, then institutes water restrictions and charge you even more money because they need to pay for their construction costs.

[get fiscal]

Let Iran have their nukes. I'd sacrifice Israel if it meant Saudi Arabia went up in flames as well.

[Mykro]

gossamer wrote:

When is Obama flying there to give them a check?

Hey stupid, King Abdullah is George Bush's best friend.

[Moderate Clam]

What have the Saudis been doing with all the oil profits over the years? Buying Rolls Royces? They sure haven't been helping any of their Arab brothers or working on a plan for a post oil era.

The American $$$ stop when the oil does. Too bad so sad, back to the desert, I guess.

[El Gato]

Have you seen 'Network'?

[Dismayed]

Even more reason to become self-sufficient and get off our oil addiction! I hope they starve because they darn sure can't eat the oil.

[PooPoo Platter]

I have a feeling the folks who hatched this scheme, sometime in the last 12 months, were bailed out by American taxpayers.

I can't prove it but I'd wager some cash on it.

[commonsins]

would that be oral or intrvenous? or is it viagra or steroids? lol!

[tampabayallstar]

I thought the Saudi Royal family were friends of W. Would not be surprised if the BUSH DYNASTY were involved in this scam.

[BobbySomers]

PooPoo Platter wrote:

I have a feeling the folks who hatched this scheme, sometime in the last 12 months, were bailed out by American taxpayers.
I can't prove it but I'd wager some cash on it.

wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Are you becoming a conspiracy theorist?

[Yes]

get fiscal wrote:

Let Iran have their nukes. I'd sacrifice Israel if it meant Saudi Arabia went up in flames as well.

Good idea!

[kissy lips obama]

gossamer wrote:

When is Obama flying there to give them a check?

The Saudis bullied bill clinton into selling off America's Strategic Oil Reserves. They know they can bully obama as well. President Bush spent 7 years refilling the Oil Reserves and the Saudis couldn't bully him. Not with a half million US troops in the Middle East. Look for obama to cower down to the Prince and lick the King's sandals.

[Son of Frances Ryan]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, the frikken American congress and lawyers taught the Saudi's and everyone else how to manipulate other nations and now that the Saudi's are playing Americas games, you want to fault them for it? As buggs bunny would say,---ehhh,--what a bunch of maroons.

[R Lee Ermey]

Son of Frances Ryan wrote:

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, the frikken American congress and lawyers taught the Saudi's and everyone else how to manipulate other nations and now that the Saudi's are playing Americas games, you want to fault them for it? As buggs bunny would say,---ehhh,--what a bunch of maroons.

Simmer down, Frances.

[gossamer]

Mykro wrote:

<quoted text>Hey stupid, King Abdullah is George Bush's best friend.

Is that why Obama bowed before him?

[PooPoo Platter]

BobbySomers wrote:

<quoted text>wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Are you becoming a conspiracy theorist?

This might be a step in that direction...

[stella007]

gossamer wrote:

<quoted text>
Is that why Obama bowed before him?

No, but the wheels were greased when Bush let the Saudi's fly home on
9/12/2001.

[Smar Tass]

And while we're at it, how about having the Saudis pay for all the damage their defective fossil fuel product has done to the earth's environment?

[gossamer]

stella007 wrote:

<quoted text>
No, but the wheels were greased when Bush let the Saudi's fly home on
9/12/2001.

Flights of Fancy

Claim: Secret flights whisked bin Laden family members and Saudi nationals out of the U.S. immediately after September 11 while a general ban on air travel was still in effect, and before the FBI had any opportunity to question any of the passengers.

Status: False.

Origins: In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America, the Federal Aviation Administration immediately ordered all flights in the United
States grounded, and that ban stayed in effect until September 13.(Even then, for that first day commercial carriers were mostly either completing the interrupted flights of September 11 or repositioning empty aircraft in anticipation of the resumption of full service. New passenger flights did not generally resume until the 14th.) During that two-day period of full lock-down, only the military and specially FAA-authorized flights that delivered life-saving medical necessities were in the air. The enforcement of the empty skies directive was so stringent that even after the United Network for Organ Sharing sought and gained FAA clearance to use charter aircraft on September 12 to effect time-critical deliveries of organs for transplant, one of its flights carrying a human heart was forced to the ground in Bellingham, Washington, 80 miles short of its Seattle destination, by two Navy F/A-18 fighters.(The organ completed its journey after being transferred to a helicopter.)