Pariahs no more? US reaches out to oil states as global fuel prices rise
Three checkered oil regimes that President Joe Biden and past US leaders have spectacularly snubbed Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran are now targets of US outreach as global fuel prices reach jarring levels during the Ukraine crisis.
But it’s not clear any US diplomacy could get more crude oil on the market fast enough to help the current supply crunch or tear once-shunned oil states away from what for Saudi Arabia in particular are profitable alliances with Russia.
