Robert Vitalis, Oilcraft: The Myths and Scarcity that Haunts U.S. Energy Policy.

But markets are politically forged under capitalism and within a capitalist world-system (terms Vitalis does not like). The US has, then, been against radical agrarian reforms to create those markets, on the one hand, and on the other has opposed sovereign industrialization, based on local technology, without any cut for the US, and with countries transforming materials on site or in trading blocs from which the US is excluded. Vitalis dubiously puts forward a handful of studies concerning the "co-variation" and excess co-movement of oil and commodity prices, claiming to establish that these works mean oil prices have never been engineered (Those studies have been largely refuted for the period through the early 1980s at least, and at the very least are enormously disputed).[5] In fact, the political engineering of price through the early 1980s is extremely well-documented. From 2015, the US (not just or even primarily Saudi Arabia) has been at pains to destroy the Ansar'allah movement, with its slogans of death to Israel and America, and government-level attempts to build food sovereignty.[13] Militarization, like access, are national-security-jargon-shorthand for political control over development itself, including going beyond control to the outright denial of Arab and Iranian development. [Extracted from the article]