[DAWN] President Donald Trump...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
on Thursday issued a fresh call on the OPEC oil cartel to lower crude prices, saying the United States was providing Middle Eastern energy giants with security.
"We protect the countries of the Middle East, they would not be safe for very long without us, and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices!" he tweeted.
"We will remember. The OPEC monopoly must get prices down now!"
Trump has earlier called for members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ‐ primarily cartel kingpin and US ally Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
‐ to raise their production, and warned importers to stop buying oil from Iran or face US sanctions.
Two of OPEC's founding members, Iran and Venezuela, are under sanctions from Washington.
A new set of US sanctions is due to hit the Islamic republic's oil industry on November 4.
Output from Iran has hit its lowest level since July 2016, according to the International Energy Agency, as top buyers India and China have distanced themselves from Tehran.