President Joe Biden vowed that the United States 'will take action' to respond to Saudi Arabia after the country voted to slash oil production.
PUBLISHED 11:53 AM EDT Oct. 11, 2022President Joe Biden vowed that the United States "will take action" to respond to Saudi Arabia after the country voted to slash oil production.
“I think the president has been very clear that this is a relationship that we need to continue to reevaluate, that we need to be willing to revisit, and certainly in light of the OPEC decision, I think that's where he is,” John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, told CNN. “I think the president has been very clear that this is a relationship that we need to continue to reevaluate, that we need to be willing to revisit, and certainly in light of the OPEC decision, I think that's where he is,” John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council,The Saudi-led OPEC+ energy alliance’s decided last week to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day, which will likely increase already high gas prices in the U.S. and elsewhere.
“There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done, with Russia,” Biden said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday. “I’m not going to get into what I’d consider and what I have in mind. But there will be ... consequences.”Biden last week called the OPEC+ decision a “disappointment,” and his administration is scrambling to find alternatives to keep gas prices down in the U.S.
“There simply is no room to play both sides of this conflict [in Ukraine] – either you support the rest of the free world in trying to stop a war criminal from violently wiping an entire country off of the map or you support him [Russian President Vladimir Putin],” Menendez said. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia chose the latter in a terrible decision driven by economic self-interest.
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