Chapter 625： oil weapon

Saudi Arabia's oil production will be temporarily stopped! Upon hearing this news, the oil importing countries of the whole world fell into a panic. If they can't import oil from Saudi Arabia, where should they make up their shortfall!

And almost at the same time as getting this news, other bad news also followed. The first is Iraq. In order to resist the aggressive US offensive in the north, Iraq announced an oil embargo on Western countries that support the US!

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

Similarly, Iran's oil minister issued a statement that since Iran's oil fields use old-fashioned oil production technology, which is far behind, Iran needs to upgrade its own oil equipment in the near future. During the upgrade, Iran will temporarily Stop oil exports to the outside world!

One news after another, the western world has completely fallen into panic.

Oil is the blood of modern economy and the black gold of industry. Without oil, many factories will close down! The transportation industry will also be stagnant due to lack of oil, which is a very strong blow to a modern country!

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, the White House.

One bad news after another, and the biggest bad news is the end of Middle East oil exports.

For the United States, launching oil weapons to attack the Western economy is simply a direct challenge to the West. In order to safeguard its own interests, the United States 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 U.S. war, instead of winning, made the situation worse, especially the Soviet Union’s dispatch of troops, which made the United States realize that the Soviet Union would never just stand behind and make small moves.

"This is a challenge to our United States. We have to mobilize more troops to enter Iraq and overthrow the Iraqi government first!" It was Weinberg who spoke. So far, the progress of the U.S. military has not been very smooth, and the war is ticking. Ritter broke out on the front line. In his eyes, this was because there were not enough troops. As long as more troops were mobilized, victory would surely be won!

"Our army can no longer be mobilized." Poindexter said: "Now, the Asia-Europe Bridge has been destroyed, and all our logistics and supplies are transported by planes. It is difficult to support more troops in combat and rely on cargo ships to transport them. , the speed is too slow. Moreover, the reduction of the European garrison has reached a dangerous level. Once the Soviets really do it, we will not have a reserve team to meet the Soviet offensive. "

The land power of the Soviets was originally stronger than that of NATO, and they were exchanged for their quality advantage. But now, with the continuous mobilization of the army to the Middle East, the number is smaller, and if it is mobilized again, Europe is very dangerous!

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

"The Soviets, why don't they dare to start a world war?" Poindexter said: "In the past, would we think that the Soviets were involved in Iran and Saudi Arabia? Now? The Saudi royal family was overthrown by the Soviets. Recently Everything that happened in the Middle East was done by the Soviets behind the scenes, so, is this the overall plan of the Soviets, or is it just the beginning?"

If it really is the beginning of a world war, then the US economy will be set back decades because of this! However, if we really want to start a war, we may be able to solve all the problems we are facing now! Domestic economic problems, the growing unemployment problem in the country, and the possibility that the US dollar may become 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 meeting back, world war? This is not something he wants to consider for the time being. The United States is also a big oil importer. Without the oil in the Middle East, what should the United States do?

Now, there are only some small countries in the Middle East, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, still exporting oil, but these oil drop in the bucket, and more importantly, if the Soviets set up a checkpoint in the Strait of Hormuz as before, then these countries are a drop Oil doesn't have to be exported anymore.

"Our strategic oil reserves can be used for half a month." Energy Secretary James Edwards said: "At the same time, we can also put pressure on the UK to sell all their excess oil to us, but, Our other NATO partners, there is no solution."

The North Sea is a major shipping route in Europe, and the seabed topography is complex and the offshore climate is harsh. Therefore, although oil fields are constantly being discovered in the North Sea, there has been no large-scale exploitation. Until 1973, when the fourth Middle East war broke out, Arab oil-producing countries, because they were dissatisfied with the support of Israel led by the United States, used energy as a weapon and declared an "oil embargo". sector, which partly contributed to the Great Recession of the global economy in the 1970s.

In response to this situation, the North Sea littoral countries led by the United Kingdom have turned to North Sea oil fields that have been silent for many years. It has successively exploited the Groningen gas field, the Ekfisco oil field, the Brent oil field, etc. on a large scale. The successive discoveries of these large oil fields have not only alleviated the energy shortages in Western European countries such as the United Kingdom and Norway, but also made Norway an outsider of the Soviet Union. The second largest non-OPEC oil exporter.

Now, in the 1980s, it was the peak time of North Sea oilfield exploitation and only by relying on North Sea oilfields could the United States survive the oil crisis in the Middle East smoothly. However, this method of killing chickens and taking eggs would lead to To the strong dissatisfaction of other NATO countries, the collapse of NATO will also appear.

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

The United States attaches great importance to energy security. Under the circumstance that cheap oil can be obtained from the Middle East, many oil fields in the United States are in a state of storage to meet emergency needs, and now, this time has come!

"At the same time, we must pay attention to the invention of new technologies." Regan continued: "For example, using biomass as raw materials, making biofuels, and extracting oil from other minerals or substitutes for oil. We have to get through the current crisis!"

Bush nodded, for him, this is really good news! Because, the Bush family is the oil giant in Texas. Now that the oil resources stored in the state are exploited again, his family will also benefit more.

"Militarily, we must overthrow the Iraqi government as soon as possible. As long as the Iraqi government is overthrown, the current problems will be solved," Bush said. (To be continued.) To find this site, please search for "" or enter the URL: