re: #6 freetoken

The original post was hinting that the axis of global oil production could swing from the Middle East to the Western Hemisphere. Is this hint based on flimsy data?

And if this switch could occur if the price is high enough, how high must the price be?

I then suspect that I also intuited the key point, that the position of the US consumer will be relatively unchanged, and the demand for alternative energies will be as necessary as it presently is—which I’m thinking is pretty darned necessary. An itch we cannot scratch.