If the US and Australia developed their oil reserves the only export from Saudi Arabia besides militant Islam would be sand. I can’t wait to see the Rolls and Maseratis on cinder blocks in front of a bunch of tents.
In the '80s I worked for a rent-a-rig Kuwaiti-owned company (bought from a buch of spittoon-spitting Texans who still ran the operation) and was sent out there to install some software. We were visiting some of those mobile rigs out in the middle of nowhere when we passed a bunch of Bedouin tents - a sight that looked right out of Lawrence of Arabia. As we came by the front, I expected to see a slew of camels tethered there. Instead, there were 4-door Toyota pickups. Another illusion shattered.