If it turns out to be true, feasable, economical,and actually developed to industrial production levels, we sure could start putting a pretty big daily dent in our national deficit, , with all the petrodollars that would no longer be flowing out of our country every day. See how much Iran can get for a barrel of oil when all of the sudden the market is awash with all the oil we are no longer buying.
Well, we COULD do that. Or, we could point to it as a source of new revenue, extrapolate the price of oil to explode in the future, and use that as an excuse to borrow like crazy so we can have more pork.