A little trouble in Russia, how about the rags going back to eating sand? Stabilizing the dollar, putting South America( read Hugo Chavez) losing influence.
I can't think of one downside from us drilling and producing our own energy.
That, and we start using natural gas and nuclear power more.
Our enemies, the Communists, can and they control the House, Senate and Executive office. Look at what the Democrats have been doing for the last seventy years and the answer is obvious.