Joe Ga was amused by Steven's slightly sleazy expression...
For the past few years, Boss Joe could be said to have been involved in the rise and fall of America's domestic energy industry from the sidelines...
Starting with bursting the shale oil bubble, he then teamed up with his prince friends from the Middle East, jointly pushing America's energy industry under water, using suffocating tactics to press the American energy industry right to the edge of the survival line.
Of course, this so-called 'survival line' doesn't refer to the survival line of those multinational energy groups, but to the profit and loss line of America's domestic energy industry.
The extraction cost has limited America's development as the country with the largest shale oil reserves globally. A mere cough from low-cost extraction countries like the Middle East would make America's domestic oil prices fluctuate.
But now, of course, things are different...
