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US Reliance on Saudi Oil Is Nearing Its Endgame
The energy market is no longer a constraint on American foreign policy in the Middle East.
US imports of Saudi crude are at their lowest in almost 40 years.
Photographer: Richard Carson/Bloomberg
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For decades, one of Saudi Arabia’s most strategic overseas outposts was a little-known office in New York City that coordinated its oil sales to American clients. An anonymous suite in Madison Avenue was the invisible hand gluing the petrostate to the US.
Until it wasn’t.