Threats to cut oil supplies in order to change a country’s foreign policy have a long history, particularly where the Middle East is concerned. Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries called for an embargo at the time of the 1967 war, but it had little effect because the US was then largely self sufficient.
威胁切断石油供应来改变某国的外交政策由来已久，特别是涉及中东问题之时。石油输出国组织中的阿拉伯成员国在1967年战争的时候呼吁实行禁运，但是由于美国当时在很大程度上是自给自足，因此效果不大。