Former CIA director fears for U.S. oil.

PositionYour Life - Former Central Intelligence Agency's Director James Woolsey - Brief article

U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East ranks very high as a national security concern, maintains former Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey. "The oil infrastructure that we rely on is in the U.S., but in a lot of other countries as well, particularly the very volatile Middle East," he told The World Future Society, Bethesda, Md.

"So, if you have [Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad deciding to pull 1,000,000 barrels a day off-line because he's unhappy with us pressing him not to develop nuclear weapons, you can have oil go up to $100 per barrel or so. In Saudi Arabia, if, for example, Prince Nayef [lbn Abd-Al-Aziz], the interior minister, should succeed King Abdullah [bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud] someday, you'd have a Saudi king who is very close to...

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