actually a lot of ISIS oil is going to Turkey, a major supporter of ISIS.

Rubbish, the U.S. Has already bombed the piss and pick handles out of ISIS oil fields, what it is not going to do is bomb those held by the U.S. supported "moderates" and makes the distinction. something it seems not given to the Author/troll from St Petersburg?

Where the unbombed oil finds its way to is anybody's guess? Maybe the Russians are buying it and using the superior profit margins to offset some of their losses?

Even so the price of oil continues to go down and has hit another new time low. what hasn't matched that is the price we are gouged at the pump. and given the new low, shouldn't we be building the missing stockpile? And if not why not?

Perhaps the exclusively profit motivated oil companies are in league with ISIS and are trying to harm us economically? Cause that 's the net effect of sustained high oil prices!

I mean If gas cost around half in the U. S., why are we paying American oil companies double? It can't all be fuel excise surely?
Rhrosty.

It's not the reluctance of the U.S - it's the reluctance of one man with too much power he abuses and misuses: President Obama, brought up among Muslims and with obvious warm feelings for them, Obama has reduced the country which used to be the leader and protector of the Free World to the state of warm porridge. With a decent President, preferably a Republic (only a Republican, actually) the world would now be free of the Islamist threat - at least until another socialist was elected President, and surely, hopefully, two terms of Obama has taught the American people a lesson.

I told you all 2mths back that it was being sold to Erdogan's son.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=17741&page=0#313852

If anyone wants to get up to scratch on this issue then I suggest they start here and read the previous articles which are linked as well.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-02/russia-presents-detailed-evidence-isis-turkey-oil-trade

Hi there TTBN...

My friend you're so right ! Mr OBAMA is the worst US President since my Vietnam days, when I first began following US Politics. While it is true, he did try to establish a complete health scheme, similar to that of our Medicare for the entire country. Nevertheless his excellent work in that area, has been completely overshadowed by his reluctance or inability to prosecute a realistic operation to rid the world of this murderous ISIS vermin ? Why ?

@Armchair Critic. I am afraid that your plea will fall on deaf ears. The vast majority of people who comment on this site are impervious to evidence, or any argument that fails to reinforce their biases. As you say, Zero Hedge has long published material showing how Syrian and Iraqi oil goes to Turkey where the on-sales are controlled by a company owned by Erdogan's son. The Russians presented detailed evidence last week, but of course, if it is Russian it must be suspect. The Americans on the other hand would never lie to us would they?
The declassified DIA document from 2012 and Seymour Hersh's The Redirection article from 2007 are also useful reading for the what and why of US foreign policy in the area, and the inestimable Pepe Escobar is obligatory reading. Not that any of this type of analysis ever darkens the pages of OLO: its typical readership as judged from the comments would have apoplexy.