I think its very possible zero is playing this entire crisis to his evil ends.
If we lost rigs,if he bans new exploration, you could be looking at $200 oil in 4-5 years and he could escape the blame.
Already some reports indicate that in a few years we will be a half million barrels per day short just due to the recent halt on exploration.
This could play right into the Marxists hands since any chaos can be exploited by them and it all leads to bigger and more govt.
We can convert coal to oil for about $60 per bbl. Further, posted reports on FR indicate the oil field found under North and South Dakota has enough light sweet crude to provide all our oil until the 2400’s at current consumption rates. So we have plenty of oil available. Our mendacious politicians won't let us use it. On the plus side I haven't seen those BP ads that have a bunch of nit wits telling the camera what we need for energy while BP talks about how green they are.