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Oil exporters since 2019, Americans are still suffering from market shocks. Faced with the price of gasoline and disastrous polls, Joe Biden hopes that Saudi Arabia, which he wanted to make a pariah, will help him lower prices.
The man who will descend Friday from Air Force One on the tarmac of the Saudi airport of Jeddah swore, during his campaign, to reduce the crown prince Mohamed ben Salmane to the rank of international pariah, for his responsibility in the atrocious assassination of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Joe Biden had also built his mandate on the promise of an ecological and social “New Deal”, bringing both a major transition to renewable energies and a green, virtuous industrial renewal finally free of fossil fuels.
A year and a half after his arrival at the White House, times have changed. Western sanctions against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine have shaken the global economy and sent oil prices soaring, among other things. To the point of pushing the Democratic president, who dreamed of being a cantor of zero carbon, to come and beg a little black gold from the sulphurous oil kingdom. Objective: to lower prices and relieve…
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