Those are some ugly possibilities, and I just read that a strike might happen in Nigeria. Too bad that it was not a French colony-they might have sent in a fleet of C-160 Transalls and C-130s with the French Foreign Legion, using Jaguars and Mirages for cover.
And so Nigeria is the sixth-largest oil producer!? How large a percentage?
As I commented on in the United (Death Watch) topic, if the US Congress releases a good bit of fuel from the Strategic Reserves, would it either reduce prices in the US by flooding the market here, or could it be sold directly to the airlines at cheap rates, however naiive this viewpoint seems? Better that, than fewer airlines and less competition, in the eyes of the GOP and the purported "laissez-faire" capitalism?
The main problem with OPEC in 1973 and 76 was their reaction to our weapons sales to Israel-and it is the only democracy in the Middle East.