The Mirage Of The Arab Spring By Seth Jones: Article Analysis

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Oil is very important in the United States. We need it heat, electricity, asphalt, cars, etc. In Seth Jones’ article “The Mirage of the Arab Spring” he writes that the “United States imports about 23 percent of its crude oil and related products from the Arab world”. Saudi Arabia is our second biggest foreign supplier of oil (Canada is our first). If the United States stops buying oil from the Arab world and does not provide a substitute as good or better than oil then there will probably be mass protests. I lived in a house for 18 out the 20 years of my life that was heated by oil. If there was an oil shortage during the winter me and my family would probably be turned into popsicles. Also, Americans would probably go crazy and complain

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