Tucker Carlson

You want the straight open?

Do it yourselves.

So what does this mean?

Well, there are many levels on which you could analyze this.

The first is the literal.

So we have enough oil.

We don't need the oil there.

If you need the oil, you do it.

To which a lot of people have noted, well, actually, oil is priced on the international market.

And unless you shut down American oil exports and in some basic sense nationalize the oil companies, control them, use the government to control oil,

who they can sell to, then what happens in the strait affects us here in gas prices and oil prices because we don't control those.

So there's that.

But bigger picture, what the president is saying is we can't open the strait.

And if it's so important to you, because we could nationalize the oil companies actually,

If it's so important to you, you do it.

So who's he talking to exactly?

Well, this administration and previous administrations have expressed increasing, accelerating hostility toward Europe.

And of course, Europe is who...

They may be talking to, they seem to be talking to, Europe needs Qatari LNG, which they definitely do.

Since the United States blew up their pipeline from Russia, they're ever more dependent on Gulf oil and particularly Gulf gas, natural gas.