When they begin to care about that they'll turn it back on, in dribs and drabs.
Do you understand how fast the production rate falls on a typical Bakken Oil well? These are exponential curves of lowering production.
Too much fun to be had financing Israel's enemies (and ours). Russians too. You know as well as I do that the Soviets funded their war machine from the Caucasus. Reagan cut the money off with deregulated access. That's how it's gone since WWII.