Not only do I understand the petro dollar completely, but it's literally central to my post, so I don't know how you missed it. Russia, China and India (and probably others) are going to pull away from all other associations (which includes the petro dollar) form their own currency, form their own military alliance and their own trade alliances and agreements.

With that kind of leverage, they can go back to Saudi and other countries and say "Nah, we're not using the US Dollar anymore. Deal with it." What's Saudi gonna do, tell China with 1.4 billion population and India with 1.3 billion population and combined billions of oil product consumers... nope we won't sell to you because a country with a population of 330 million that's trying to transition it's driving population to electric vehicles told us not to?

The Petro dollar is going down the toilet and $5 a gallon gas is going to look cheap by comparison when real hyper-inflation starts.