(6. November) U.S. exports would help world energy prices converge and give nations more freedom to choose suppliers, Kancer said. „History is all about how society extracts energy and uses energy,“ he added. „Everything else flows from there,“ despite „pushback“ from environmentalists and other opponents. OPEC nations like Saudi Arabia, which once boosted oil prices „to hurt us,“ are now forced to reduce their prices in hopes of driving some U.S. producers of the market, he added.