all the US has to do is cut oil demand by 25% in the next couple years by turning US trucks on the interstates from oil to gas.
That would keep oil prices way down while other kinds of non oil vehicles came onstream in the next couple years.
That would in turn collapse the US trade deficit—which would make a great rolling sea of of higher value dollars abroad which would need to be spent in the USA on one thing or another.
That would in turn enrich the US and the US would in turn buy everyone else’s products.
Presuming you mean Natural Gas, I also presume you are unaware that a great deal of Natural Gas production comes from oil wells.
The answer is a simple one, we need to utilize our own resources. The Government is standing in the way of this, and even more land is being cut out of the picture for oil and gas exploration and development. If $4 gasoline could not get the ball rolling there, and stop the closing of areas onshore to drilling, what will?