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Energy Independence Isn’t What’s Straining the U.S.-Saudi Relationship / Michael Levi, Energy, Security and Climate, 26/11/2013 http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2013/11/26/energy-independence-isnt-whats-straining-the-u-s-saudi-relationship/The newest boom sparked by rising U.S. oil and gas production appears to be in articles about the troubled U.S.-Saudi relationship. The latest installment, provoked by the Iran nuclear deal over the weekend, ran today on A1 in the New York Times. “When you look at our differing views of the Arab Spring, on how to deal with Iran, on changing energy markets that make gulf oil less central,” Greg Gause tells the Times, “these things have altered the basis of U.S.-Saudi relations.” “New sources of oil,” the Times informs us, “have made the Saudis less essential.”...