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I don't like it when people here downvote things they don't agree with.

For one, it makes it hard to find the counterarguments, which are often where the best parts of the discussion are.

I think the point about the cure for low oil prices is low oil prices stands on its own, but not as a virtue (not that I think you were implying that).

It's a warning. Low oil prices cause complacency, which means the next minor emergency we have to go crawling back to them whether we want to or not. Low oil prices are the anesthetic in the mosquito's saliva.



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