I want a crystal bucket for my slopwater and a brand new filthy blanket.

This could be good news. The unfortunate thing about the current economy is that whenever the economy starts looking good oil prices go up and they strangle the economy. The strangling of the economy then causes oil prices to fall. If some big oil developments (or any big energy developments, gas/solar/nuclear) could cause the price of oil/energy to drop it would be a huge boon to the economy both here and world wide (except for maybe places like saudi arabia which are completely reliant on the sale of energy at high prices.) Of course if this oil is close and readily accessible the US would get the biggest boost from the oil sands specifically.