It's no coincidence they just announced a large cut in benefits for the family. They have a welfare state, and then they have a giant class of, I don't know, nobles? who just got a 20% pay cut. Guess they've had enough of bleeding themselves dry in the last 24 months. One of two guys, actually. I read 97-1, and I thought, "Wow, who had those stones?" Harry Reid, it turns out. And he's "retiring". And I'm sure going to do some lobbying. Which may or may not involve foreign government. Who may not be enthused about the US government suing them. You get my point. In the past two weeks we've bounced from $47 to $44... take $18 out of that and the profit fluctuation on Saudi oil is about 15%.
Know why Obama vetoed it? 'cuz he's the one guy that doesn't have to worry about re-election and this way he has no "legacy" problems. If he was running for a third term they'd hang him by that veto.