The US-Saudi Alliance Under Pressure

[Bunyip]

I just wanted to point out that the value of Saudi Arabia as a strategic asset and oil resource is not really knowable. Saudi estimates of their oil reserves are largely drawn from their imagination - their figures for the size of the remaining reserve barely changed for 30 years. I think that Saudi estimates of their strategic alliances in the region are liable to be equally inaccurate.

 

[metis]

I just wanted to point out that the value of Saudi Arabia as a strategic asset and oil resource is not really knowable. Saudi estimates of their oil reserves are largely drawn from their imagination - their figures for the size of the remaining reserve barely changed for 30 years. I think that Saudi estimates of their strategic alliances in the region are liable to be equally inaccurate.

But what makes it a driving force in the area of oil is that it's so close to the surface there, thus the cost of getting it out is quite low.

 

[Bunyip]

But what makes it a driving force in the area of oil is that it's so close to the surface there, thus the cost of getting it out is quite low.

Sure, but nobody has an accurate idea of the reserve. Meanwhile, the Americans have been doing a far better job of demonstrating that new technologies make more difficult to access resources increasingly competitive.

 

[metis]

Sure, but nobody has an accurate idea of the reserve. Meanwhile, the Americans have been doing a far better job of demonstrating that new technologies make more difficult to access resources increasingly competitive.

"Increasingly", yes; but it's still more expensive, and it's likely to remain that way because of the extra processing needed here.

 

[Brickjectivity]

The article was all fluff and little fact. It kept making insinuations that the US-Saudi connections weren't sincere, but to support this it merely cited "According to reports in U.S. media" and "Increasingly, Saudi Arabia is being discussed in the U.S. media with the same tone accorded Pakistan" yet no news sources were cited! I call balogney. They don't have any information, so they are puffing up smoke. I've never heard of CBC news before, and I guess now I know why.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Saudi estimates of their oil reserves are largely drawn from their imagination - their figures for the size of the remaining reserve barely changed for 30 years.

Oil estimations always suck, and the range from 10 years, 50 years, over 100 years. Where one source says something, another gives another answer. The remaining reserves of oil seems to be a great, as of now unsolvable mystery with constantly changing numbers, such as the way the information on if eggs are good or bad for you is constantly changing.

It kept making insinuations that the US-Saudi connections weren't sincere,

Those relations aren't sincere, they are often immoral, and every American should move to recall every politician who has an alliance with any and all Saudi "politicians" (not the correct term, but to generally speak bear with it) who have ties to terrorist organizations, which is a lot of them. Even though for some reason it's now considered news again, it's been known for well over a decade some of Bush Jr.'s Saudi pals were pals of Al-Qaeda. Why was Bush never charged with conspiring with an enemy of the United States?

I've never heard of CBC news before,

Just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean it's rubish. The CBC, in the essence of wording, names, and abbreviations, is the Canadian version of the BBC, just with a C at the beginning instead of a B.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean it's rubish. The CBC, in the essence of wording, names, and abbreviations, is the Canadian version of the BBC, just with a C at the beginning instead of a B.

Thanks for your comment. Sorry but I do not recognize the text of the article now. Maybe they edited it? Maybe I read something else?