President Biden and Democrats in Congress are livid at Saudi Arabia for pushing the OPEC cartel to scale back oil manufacturing, and so they’re threatening “penalties.” The ingenious plan appears to be to inform the Saudis that except they do what Mr. Biden desires, the U.S. will shoot itself within the head.
The Saudis final week joined OPEC, Russia and different oil producers in slicing their output by two million barrels a day. Because the Journal reported this week, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made the choice regardless of U.S. entreaties to attend at the least till after the November election.