WHEN PRESIDENT Bush traveled to Saudi Arabia in mid-May to plead for an increase in oil production, his friend King Abdullah resisted him. U.S. consumers might be straining to afford gasoline, the Saudi monarch said, but the best he could do would be an additional 300,000 barrels a day, raising total output to 9.45 million barrels a day. Now, however, the Saudis have improved their offer. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.