Chapter 625: Oil Weapons

Oil extraction in Saudi Arabia will be temporarily stopped! After getting this news, the entire world's oil importing countries fell into a kind of panic. www.biquge.info If they can't import oil from Saudi Arabia, then where should they fill their gaps!

And almost at the same time as I got this news, other bad news also came. The first is Iraq, in order to resist the aggressive American offensive in the north, Iraq announced an oil embargo on Western countries that support the United States!

Now Iraq, after controlling Kuwait, has controlled more than 20% of the world's oil production, and the right to speak is also quite important!

Similarly, Iran's oil minister issued a statement that Iran's oil fields are far behind in the use of old-fashioned oil production technology, and that Iran needs to upgrade its oil equipment in the near future, during which Iran will temporarily stop exporting oil to the outside world!

One news after another, the Western world was completely thrown into a panic.

Oil is the blood of the modern economy and the black gold of industry, without oil, many factories will go out of business! The transport industry will also stagnate due to the lack of oil, and the blow to a modern country is very strong!

And in the Western world, except for a few countries such as the United Kingdom, which can export oil, most countries have to import oil, which is tantamount to putting a knife on their necks!

United States, White House.

The bad news comes one after another, and the biggest bad news is tantamount to the termination of oil exports from the Middle East.

For the United States, launching oil weapons to hit the Western economy is simply a direct challenge to the West, and the United States, in order to protect its own interests, will directly launch a war to solve the problem!

But this time, the situation is quite complicated! Because, the United States has already started a war! The war of the United States did not win, but worsened the situation, especially the Soviet Union's dispatch of troops, which made the United States realize that the Soviet Union would never just stand behind it and make small moves.

"This is a challenge to our America, we want to mobilize more troops, enter Iraq, and overthrow the Iraqi government first!" It was Weinberg who spoke, until now, the progress of the American army has not been very smooth, the war is breaking out on the Tikrite front, in his eyes, this is caused by the lack of troops, as long as more troops are mobilized, the victory will definitely be won!

"Our army can no longer be mobilized." "Now that the Eurasian Bridge has been destroyed, our logistical supply transportation is all airplanes, and it is difficult to support more troops to fight, and it is too slow to rely on cargo ships," Poindexter said. Moreover, now the reduction of the garrison in Europe has reached a dangerous level, and once the Soviets really get their hands dirty, we will have no reserves to meet the offensive of the Soviets. ”

The land power of the Soviets was already stronger than NATO, and they relied on their qualitative superiority in exchange. But now, with the constant transfer of troops to the Middle East, there are fewer of them, and if they are redeployed, Europe is dangerous!

"Soviets, dare to start a world war?" Weinberg said dismissively.

"Soviets, why don't you dare to start a world war?" "In the past, would we think that the Soviets were involved in Iran, in Saudi Arabia? What now? The Saudi royal family has been overthrown by the Soviets, and everything that has happened in the Middle East recently has been done by the Soviets behind their backs, so is all this the overall plan of the Soviets, or is it just the beginning? ”

If it really starts a world war, then the American economy will be set back by decades! However, if you really want to start a big war, you may be able to solve all the problems you are facing now! The domestic economic problems, the growing unemployment problem in the country, the problem that the dollar may turn into waste paper, will not be a problem!

"Okay, let's talk about how to deal with the current oil crisis." Reagan pulled the topic of the conference back, a world war? This is not something he wants to consider for the time being, the United States is now also a big oil importer, without the oil of the Middle East, what should the United States do?

Now, only a few small countries in the Middle East, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, are still exporting oil, but these oil are a drop in the bucket, and more importantly, if the Soviets set up a checkpoint in the Strait of Hormuz, as they did before, then these countries will not have to export a drop of oil.

"Our strategic petroleum reserves can be used for half a month." "At the same time, we can put pressure on Britain to sell us all their excess oil, but our other NATO partners have no solution," said Energy Secretary James Edwards. ”

The North Sea is a major shipping route in Europe, and although the seabed topography is complex and the maritime climate is harsh, although oil fields continue to be discovered in the North Sea, there has been no large-scale exploitation. Until 73 years, the fourth Middle East war broke out, the Arab oil-producing countries because of dissatisfaction with the United States led by Western countries to support Israel, with energy as a weapon, announced the "oil embargo", resulting in a sharp rise in oil prices in Europe and the United States, and successively affected various economic fields, partly leading to the global economic recession in the seventies.

In response, the North Sea littoral countries, led by the United Kingdom, have turned their attention to the North Sea oil fields, which have been dormant for many years. The successive discovery of these large oil fields has not only alleviated the energy shortage of Western European countries such as Britain and Norway, but also made Norway the second largest non-OPEC oil exporter after the Soviet Union.

Now, in the 80s, it was the peak moment of the exploitation of the North Sea oil fields, and only by relying on the North Sea oil fields could the United States survive the Middle East oil crisis smoothly, but this way of killing chickens and eggs would arouse the strong dissatisfaction of other NATO countries, and the collapse of NATO would also occur.

"It seems that our domestic oil fields can no longer be preserved, and they need to be exploited on a large scale." Reagan said.

The United States attaches great importance to energy security, and when it can obtain cheap oil from the Middle East, many oil fields in the United States are in a state of mothballing in order to meet the needs of the emergency, and now, it has come to such a time!

"At the same time, we need to pay attention to the invention of new technologies." Reagan continued: "For example, biofuels are made from bio-fuels, and there are alternatives to oil from other minerals. We must get through this crisis! ”

Bush nodded, and for him, this is really good news! Because, the Bush family is the oil giant of Texas, and now that the oil resources sealed by the state are being exploited again, his family will also make more profits.

"Militarily, we must overthrow the Iraqi government as soon as possible, and as long as the Iraqi government is overthrown, the current problems will be solved." Bush said. (To be continued.) )