Re: I guess if you're going to pick a number out of thin air...
1999 Estimate Saudi Oil reserves - 260 bnillion barrels.
260 billion * $25/barrel = $6.5 trillion.
Though even that would take 100+ years to pump out.
BTW, the WORLD GDP in 2000 was only $40 trillion.
The amount in the lawsuit serves only to trivialise the somewhat laudable efforts of the lawsuit itself, as well as the lives lost on September 11th.
Another point - people around the world will add this to the list of things that can happen "only in America".
Cheers,
Tony