trading. they jumped 6% yesterday to close above $91 in new york. moammar gadhafi s departure would have little if any impact on the u.s. economy. reporter: you see the condemnation the white house and state department have issued. also remember the moammar gadhafi s oil, very little of it comes to the united states. most of it to europe. there s no reason for that to stop flowing. in terms of tara, he was not supporting al qaeda. he did, in fact, condemn that. he seems to have gotten out of the tara and wmd business. don t know what will happen if there s chaos after him. but in terms also of the united states, doesn t have a huge amount of leverage there. gadhafi is not mubarak. libya is not egypt. egypt got bz 1.5 billion of u.s. aid. that s not the same with libya. again, abc s chris she an amanpour there. you can stay with abc news throughout the morning as we continue our coverage of the uprising in libya. 3 and now the uncertainty facing the gadhafi regime. we ll h