While the cheep gas might be nice, its killing the Economy in TX, MS, LA and to a lesser extent AL. In these area's alone 200,000 good paying jobs have been lost.
My Company has laid off 30,000 in the USA and another 50,000 people world wide. I have had my pay cut three times in 2015 (40% income loss) , and looking at a layoff around June.
Oil will go back up. My educated guess is in 18 to 24 months. Then the USA will have little to no drilling capacity, same with Brazil, Africa. Middle east will have us by the short strings. Expect close to 150 a barrel, with is around 4.50 a gallon. Expect 5 to 6 years for the USA to build back up its drilling companies.
This was brought on because the USA was in 2015 the top producer of Oil and of Gas....We are no long, and going down fast. Gulf of mexico is down to 26 rigs from 59 at the end of 2014.
Enjoy the cheep gas while you can.