Why do the oil producing countries not use their oil to extract friendly behavior and favorable policies... ?

Question

from their customers?

The only country that gets any favors is the arch Muslim Saudi Arabia. My idea of h**l on Earth.

Answer 1

I think they do. See OPEC.

Answer 2

Even if Saudi Arabia is h**l on Earth for most Saudis, that certainly is not the case for it's "royals".

And in a Royalist nation they are all that truly count.

It's like in the new aristocracy of the USA, where if your not one of the new age mobsters who use d ope, run in by US armed forces transports, at public expence, to buy elections from people that use electronic cameras to purchase said d ope by selling confirmations of sold ballots...well if your not a man, as B.O. says, your just not man.

At least your not man enough to get past de@dbeat daddy law. Cause the only proved thing in the USA is that DE@DBEAT DADDY might get 2.5 years in federal prison at hard labor, but Freeway Ricky Ross got less than that for being convicted of selling more d ope than anyone in US history; so what? Doesn't that say: "Sell d ope cause otherwise we will haul you off in front of the judge and declare you ain't man enough to get any civil rights"? After all, do you really expect to get more time than Freeway did, even if they do catch you?

Royalties do not worry about votes. Neither do US politicians. What they do worry about is not selling their nation fast enough to the real power of the Communists, who are far more numerous and murderous than you believe. Being a silly person who studies "free trade" with communist nations and agrees in all likelihood with most traded nation status for the communist commissioner in charge of a slave labor camp of "re~education", that kills all prisoners on average by de@th by labor within two years, you likely think that all law is good law, like de@dbeat daddy laws, that conseffatives use to remove the economic civil rights from Liberals, and reduce them to slaves either inside prison (jailed in secret for "the good of kiddies psychies" ~ or merely refused all forms of licenses, like patent or business licenses).

God knows we would rather not have our fearless leaders "needing to compete" with mere "pesants" (sic) here in the USA, like de@dbeat daddy.

A good "royalty" indicator, here, is if a man can sell enough d ope to avoid de@dbeat daddy civil convictions; will a guy sell out his nation's interests faster than his neighbor? Royalty!!!!!

Get out of jail free. For Royalty.

Get to re-education camp free, via extraordinary rendition or no, if one is a Freedom lovin' Liberal.

So, Like Rush, go take your pain killers like a good boy.

Or be prepaired to be "civilly disobedient", like me.

But be warned: they have shot me through the head three separate times wearing a Law Enforcement badge. And they do not but feed and house me. No money.

I'm "not royal enough"; under the Saudi system of sell.