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Lol whole us economy is dependent on oil. Dollar hold it value cause it can trade against oil.
Currently USA is the biggest producer of oil but at low price USA has to import oil and thus pump money into Saudia real money. At low more than half of US oil is not economical to pump and thus USA production drops. This means reduced tax revenue from domestic production of oil and out flow of funds to purchase oil. This bring Russia out of sanctions as USA has to make purchase oil from there. On top of all recession from coronavirus. Russia and Saudis will sustain due to high oil production although cheap price. China is a consumer of oil majorly so Chinese revenue is not oil based so China India Pakistan will be big gainers from this.
Lol what are you talking about?
First the effect of use of dollar by most oil producing countries does not alone contribute to the power of the dollar, its overall the global usage of it, you can check how much USD is used just on daily basis and compare that to oil exports, and you will see how small of a % oil makes up.
US has to import oil even despite being the biggest producer, and in short term most companies will not reduce their production, meaning US production will not suddenly collapse. Operating at a loss is nothing new in United States, some of biggest companies in US and the world constantly operate at a loss. These short term fluctuations will not cause a collapse in US production. Tax revenue from oil production is also not much in overall scale of US economy.
Effects of coronavirus is not limited to US, Saudi Arabia will not see any tourists this season due to it, which means billions of dollars lost already just from that, then you add the effect of low oil prices, and things are not looking too good.
Russia may be able to sustain production at such low price because they are used to hardship, they don't have princes in Europe driving expensive cars, or purchasing expensive items around the globe. Saudis cannot sustain such price, last time they tried, they lost 100s of billions from FOREX reserves and had to arrest many royal family members to squeeze money out of them. Things haven't really changed, today Saudis just have smaller FOREX reserve than 2014 crisis.