A Syria Strike Won't Spark an Oil Crisis

Experts explain why Saudi Arabia, North Dakota, and even Iran make a crisis "extremely unlikely."

Oil pumps work at sunset Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf. Iran test-fired a surface-to-surface cruise missile Monday in a drill its navy chief said proved Tehran was in complete control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-sixth of the world's oil supply. 
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