Visitors from Colorado and oil policy

Today we had a visit from Brint and Carolyn. They are skiing and sailing friends from Colorado but previously from San Fancisco. We met Brint and Carolyn in Aspen as Brint is an old school chum of our cousin Dick. Both were chemical engineers with Dick working for DuPont and Brint for oil compaines including Aramco with a couple of stints in Saudi Arabia. He was a consultant for the current oil minister. Brint and Carolyn just got back from a cruse up the Erie canal going through to Quebec city in Canada. Now they are visiting their son and family in Maine. In September Brint is returning for a week on sailing down east. We talked about the current oil situation with Brint saying that the Saudi's can put the price any where they want it. They have been careful in the past to keep the price low enough so as not to reduce demand or encourage alternate forms of energy. Perhaps they can't keep this up forever. Hopefully we will move to better forms of energy before it is too late.