Would lower petroleum prices preempt a strike on Iran ?

[EVDebs]

With gasoline riots in Iran, you'd think our Saudi 'allies' would be doing everything in their power -- along with our Russian 'allies'-- in order to get gasoline prices so low that the Iranian regime would do all in their power to comply with the UN non-proliferation agenda.

Iran fuel rations spark violence
27 June 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6243644.stm

What exactly HAVE these allies, Russia and Saudi Arabia, done to lower petrol prices ?

Jubak's Journal
From Russia, with love: $60 oil
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P113995.asp

Saudi Arabian oil declines 8% in 2006
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2325

and this little tidbit,

Iran war 'could triple oil price'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5101444.stm

[Fearless]

1. Saudi Arabia is not our ally

They are a leach and we are the lifeblood. Russia has enough of it's own problems.

Why lower prices? BushCo is going to attack anyways (I call before the end of October, ftr). For them it is about giving their criminal corporate friends as much chaos as possible in the region, justifying their and our continued presence there. Bush doesn't give a damn about gas prices any more than he cares about the American people.

[rwheeler31]

2. No

[EVDebs]

3. Why ? I've revised my original post and see that if a strike, world oil prices triple

which is economic madness if * DOES do a strike. On the other hand, should a flood of lower price oil hit, Iran would be in for even more gasoline rioting.