The developed world already transfers gargantuan sums of wealth to the Saudis for energy supplies, and has done so for many decades. What exactly is the moral distinction here? From a 50,000 ft view, it seems that the social bargain we have with the Saudis is what it is, and the particular modes of capital flow aren't the critical issue.

If nothing else, massive inputs of fossil fuels are required to sustain the Valley tech economy, too, in all kinds of direct and indirect ways. Tech has been helping make the oil autocracies rich since forever.