M.E. oil will stay low so T Booger Picker never gets a toe hold on natural gas and investors stay discouraged to invest.
Oil prices are also low to drive the Russians,Iranians et al. to use up their financial reserves because they are not generating the revenue they need for their shananigansfrom oil sales...This wa done ater the spike in prices so they went out to buy lots of expensive things (including weapons), and now they cannot pay for them.