Do I really care if Alberta or Venezuela or some other place leaning heavily on oil has problems if it means alleviated burdens for most of the world?

I'd also point out that the U.S. is not everything (just a lot of things), there are places where gas prices have actually gone up. I went to Peru in February and then again in October, the prices were higher there and elsewhere in South America, too. I don't know about Europe but I know in China gas has fallen while it has risen in India. So it's not an across-the-board drop either.