Saudis

Sam hurls the Saudis as cunning oil arbiters into Oval Office crossfire, their bold announcement greenlighting U.S. SPR unleashing to crush market hysteria—prices too steep even for them. Bartlet lunges at the contradiction: true alarm demands faster pumps, unheeded. Their selective rhetoric sways global energy tides, masking production chokeholds that punish U.S. resolve amid soaring costs and OPEC shadows.