Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Robert Ebel, a senior adviser with the CSIS Energy and National Security Program, was quoted by the USA Today, "Pressure Builds Over Bush-Saudi Oil Talks."
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Robert Ebel, a senior adviser with the CSIS Energy and National Security Program, was quoted by the USA Today, "Pressure Builds Over Bush-Saudi Oil Talks."
President Bush arrived in Saudi Arabia today to meet with the leader of the world's leading oil-producing nation amid growing pressure to do something about rising fuel prices at home.
If precedent is any indication, however, Bush is unlikely to get much sympathy from King Abdullah, the Saudi monarch. He asked Abdullah in January to increase production and was rebuffed.
"I hope that President Bush goes in with low expectations," says Robert Ebel, an energy analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "He's going to be disappointed if he doesn't." Read the article
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