The war changed that equation. Higher oil prices mean that Americans (and Europeans and Japanese) are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Middle East oil dictators and oil exporters elsewhere in the world rather than spending it at home.
这一战争改变了这一等式。高油价意味着美国人(以及欧洲人和日本人) 向中东石油独裁者以及其他地方的出口国支付数以亿计的美元，而不是用在国内。