[kabar]

Saudi Arabia isn’t dependent on American food. Believe it or not, they even export wheat. The Saudis have enough money that they can buy their food from anywhere. They don’t need us as much as we need them.

[xjcsa]

Saudi Arabia isn’t dependent on American food. Believe it or not, they even export wheat. The Saudis have enough money that they can buy their food from anywhere. They don’t need us as much as we need them.

Most of this is true, but we can also buy our oil from anywhere. The lion's share comes from Canada and Mexico.

[Smile-n-Win]

The Saudis have enough money that they can buy their food from anywhere. They don’t need us as much as we need them.

We wouldn't need them either if we lifted all the restrictions on domestic drilling and on building nuclear power stations. (Oh, and if we hadn't allowed them to nationalize those oil fields. They had been the property of American companies up until around the 1950s.)

[SAJ]

Just last month, the Kingdom announced the end of subsidies to wheat grovers. They won't be exporting wheat any longer -- or growing it.

Never did make a lot of sense to coerce a wheat crop in the desert.