It's not a price issue.
It's a policy issue, which will impact producers, and cause them to question their activities.
Many will continue to try to hide their guilt.
We're in a different world, now, however, and information will spin quicker than excuses and cover-ups, often enough to be significant.
The insult to Americans will be such that any supplier suspected of supporting terrorism will be dealt with at the pump, immediately. There will be an urgency in making themselves look clean as the driven snow.
Who knows, they may even decide to help track down some Al Queda, just to show American consumers what good guys they are.
But, it won't be a price issue, in any case, if the question before the consumer is "support terrorism" or "don't support terrorism".
Before, it was just petrodollar flows among suicide bombers overseas somewhere.
Now, it's personal. |
