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Originally posted by Not Me
I don't think that will happen. The reason our gas prices are so high right now is that there is too much worldwide demand, primarily increased demand from places like India and China that are becoming stronger economically.
Decreasing our dependence on mid-east oil won't stop the demand for mid-east oil from other countries.
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No, but we are by far the biggest consumer and if our consumption decreases substantially there will be ramifications. Perhaps these ramifications would have a net benefit on the ME, but I fear that we would simply have the ME in it's current state but with less revenues, and I worry of the anger, frustration, etc. this would breed.
