
[BOR]
0: Safe
1: Be civil and nice.
2: Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you *have* to.

[EOR]
[BOC]
Yes, all of those things contribute to KSA/OPEC's lower overhead. Oil deposits in the middle east are easily accessible with conventional drilling methods (thus cheaper infrastructure), whereas many other nations must employ expensive alternative techniques like oil sands extraction in North America. This gives KSA the luxury of undercutting many of its non-Arabic counterparts. Also, KSA has the [third largest foreign exchange reserves in the world](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-exchange_reserves), so even if the world price drops below profitability, they can stay financially solvent for an essentially indefinite amount of time.  
[EOC]
