We have exhausted all other options. There is no one fix.  We need revenue, and we need to start a draw, with inflation protection, off the large amounts we have saved for this very situation when oil is no longer 80% of our revenues. We need every tool in the box, as has already been pretty well demonstrated to us all, except perhaps Senators Kelly Micciche and McKinnon and the Conoco caucus who would have us remain subservient to the desires of an international cartel controlling access to our resources. And we certainly cannot sustain subsidies for these three same giants of industry. The impression I got from your post was that this was just a short term issue and we can take our time, another year or two maybe to fix things and "wait for higher oil prices".  Thanks to fracking we won`t see even 60 dollar oil for a long time.  Fracked oil is now profitable around 35 bucks a barrel so they have plenty waiting to put back on the market to mitigate increases and fill demand cheaply.