>now flood the world with cheap oil aimed at destroying the American high tech green energy industry. I'm not going to pretend to know the motivations of the S

>now flood the world with cheap oil aimed at destroying the American high tech green energy industry. I'm not going to pretend to know the motivations of the Saudis, but if you held a resource which was seen as possibly becoming obsolete in the mid-term, would you not sell it for the prevailing price as soon as possible, rather than holding it until it became worthless? That's at least part of the issue they face.