Saudi royal: U.S. can’t be energy-independent - Accused Obama and Bush of “deceiving” the American people
A key member of the Saudi royal family who headed the country’s intelligence service for 25 years accused both the Obama and Bush administrations Monday of “deceiving” the American people that the U.S. can ever end its dependence on foreign oil. “You can’t get rid of oil. You can’t get rid of fossil fuels — gas and coal — unless you want to price yourself out of existence,” Prince Turki al-Faisal, former ambassador to Washington, told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. “I’d hope that the general public in the United States would be wiser than to be deceived into thinking that the U.S. can ever be energy independent,” he said. Saudi Arabia, a long-time U.S. ally that has suffered a significant image problem since it was revealed that 15 of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers hailed from the kingdom, is the world’s largest oil exporter. Last year, the U.S. imported from Saudi Arabia 1.5 million barrels of oil a day — more than 11 percent of total imports.
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So a country that produces terrorists and oil claims to be our ally, and that we will never be independent from them.
Isn’t that like a crack dealer telling you that you’ll never kick the habit?