How do we deal with Saudi Arabia and their human rights abuses?

My opinion is that we should stop empowering them. The Saudi's only have wealth, influence, and power because we give those to them. Their society only survives because we prop it up.

We must free innovators and capitalists in the American market to create affordable technology to get us off our oil dependency. We should allow increased use of domestic oil during a transitional period. We need to actively work to educate and sway public opinion against Saudi Arabia and oil as a continued use for energy and allow the resulting consumer demand to drive the market with incentives for making the switch to new energy and technologies.

It’s much easier to influence the decisions of a foreign government that must abide by the human rights standards of other developed nations to prosper in the global market.