Baby McNown wrote:
So gas should be 1.49 on the way home with this oil windfall coming right?

The key piece is that we will become a leader in exporting hydrocarbons. LNG was already on its way to becoming an export product for us. Now other hydrocarbons may follow a similar pattern. That will go a long way toward addressing the trade deficit, and it also gives us geopolitical leverage over Russia, Venezuela, and the Middle East because we don't need their oil anymore.
From a safety perspective, pipelines are much safer than oil by rail. One last item is that the U.S. has some of the lowest energy cots in the world, and it is a competitive advantage for a lot of industries that are energy intensive.