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The best thing for oil prices to do are go up, drastically, until research into alternative energy is not just an option but necessary. This would be more efficient solar panels as a stopgap and then nuclear fusion as a long term solution. This would be supplemented by hydrogen as a portable fuel for cars, with the energy for that coming from the two mentioned. Drilling is just prolonging the problem.