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Saudi Arabia has 27 million people; Norway has 5 million; Canada has 30 million.

The massive leap forward that goes with any new breakthrough in energy supply or cost, is without question worth the potentially negative effects those countries will suffer. Saudi Arabia can find other ways to build economy, as so many other countries that lack oil have to do.

Russia is the only one on the list that worries me, because of what a truly destabilized Russia might cause.

Venezuela might even benefit from their oil system going to zero. It'll force their leadership and people to move to a functional political system, and away from the oil welfare bribery that Chavez used which has crippled the nation.