Oil Usage Fight in the Comments Section

I find the fight really neat but I also want to put in a sideways note here.

Coal Gasification. We can gasify coal right now and make oil cheaper then we can get it out of the saudi dirt. If the US were to make a real effort towards coal gasification ( and possibly towards making Oil shale a more realistic energy source) I'd venture good solid American money that would do more to push oil prices down then the saudi's dumping their oil reserves.

There are some reasons we aren't doing that ( people invest enough money in a system, they are less likely to ditch a system when a better alternative comes along) But this just goes to show a whole lot of things can be done to effect oil prices here in the US more then the saudi's can