October 13, 2022
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Brenda Shaffer, senior advisor for energy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, offered that the US would derive little benefit from ratcheting up conflict with Saudi Arabia, especially in the midst of the worst energy crisis since World War II and widening global recession.
She singled the US out as the only major oil producer that did not return to pre-Covid production rates. "The US is the chief culprit for the current state of the global market and subsequent price," she added. "It is hard to fathom why the administration spends energy chastising Saudi Arabia and courting Venezuela and Iran in search of additional oil supplies, while it doesn't appeal to Houston."