One thing I just thought of: Isn’t OPEC going to throw a hissy-fit? They’ll no longer have the oil option to control the world or the US for that matter. Our region will become the world’s oil exporter.
Just for your information, there have been recent articles about how OPEC is about to lose the control they once had. I believe this is true.
And another thing that I’ve been reading over the last couple of years is that the USA will become the number one exporter (that’s the “USA” - not North America) of oil to the world - in the next decade - far outstripping Saudi Arabia. I believe I recently read that the USA has over four times the reserves of oil that Saudi Arabia does.
You would have to search that out for the details - but the general picture I’m talking about is coming down the pike.
That’s based on the assumption of no fields of green glass sprouting up.