Saudi Arabian oil is hurting the United States’ economy and international reputation. We should be drilling here at home.
Trade with Saudi Aramco, the state-owned enterprise of the especially unfree, absolutist Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a negative consequence of the federal government becoming too involved in friendly relations with authoritarian and hardline dictators.
Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist for the Washington Post who was uncovering the spying on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos by Saudi Arabia in 2018, walked into the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul for passport services but instead was brutally murdered by the Saudi Arabian army present at the embassy.
The United States has been hurting its ideology when we abandon the moral upper hand and trade with authoritarians, especially Saudi Arabian oil trade and especially trade relations with China, which is an authoritarian one-party state.
The oil should instead be drilled at home and should also be drilled by larger American companies in Canada and Brazil and Britain and Europe and in Southern Hemisphere nations that are allies, like Argentina, New Zealand, and Australia and Singapore and Malaysia. Alliances support our allies in the second victory effort.
Ending trade with China is impossible at this point because of the vast amount of trade we currently do. China is our number one trading partner representing 17 percent of our total trade. Nevertheless, U. S. policy should move in the direction of discouraging trade with totalitarian regimes and encouraging trade with countries who embrace our ideology of liberty and democracy.
