Saudis decry anti-Arab tilt in US oil posturing

Prince Turki Al Faisal has had enough.

According to the former Saudi ambassador to Washington, the relentless promotion of “energy independence” by the administration of US President Barack Obama is an affront to his country. “This ‘energy independence’ motto is political posturing at its worst – a concept that is unrealistic, misguided and ultimately harmful to energy producing and consuming countries alike,” Prince Turki writes in an article published last week in Foreign Policy magazine.

Political demands for the US to wean itself off imported oil are “often deployed as little more than code for arguing that the United States has a dangerous reliance on my country of Saudi Arabia, which gets blamed for everything from global terrorism to high gasoline [petrol] prices”, he continues.