Countless articles in the recent past from the differnt news sites state that the US gets ONLY 7% of its oil from the middle east, whereas the rest of the World (such as the UK and Europe) rely heavily on that source for their oil.
And OPEC would never repeat their screwup from the 70's and cut back a serious amount on their production amounts. Most of you weren't even alive yet, to see the inner turmoil they created on themselves and their economies when they did that. It took them years to get back into the black from that snafu.
Bottom line? The US could survive without the Mid East oil reserves for alot of years.
