First, the American government persuaded its oil companies to limit the amount of exploitation. In the last five years, despite the high oil price, the output of American oil giants has remained at a level.

Second, Saudi Arabia, a loyal ally of the United States, is willing to implement the strategy of the United States, and has not shown the desire to increase oil supply in large quantities to suppress oil prices.

Third, a lot of speculation in new york futures market is the driving force of oil price growth.

There is no doubt that Americans set the tone there, and a large number of futures transactions push up oil prices every day. There are other ways for the US government to manipulate oil prices. For example, before the Iraq war, it was said that after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime 1 year, 3 million barrels of Iraqi oil could be supplied to the market every day, and it could reach 5 million barrels three years later. At present, the export volume of Iraqi oil is only 6.5438+0.5 million barrels, even lower than that during Saddam's administration.

The United States has also made a fortune in the rise of oil prices by virtue of its financial advantages. For example, Citibank quietly entered eurodollar market 10 days before the international oil price rose, maintaining a short position of 1 1 billion dollars, and hedging a large number of crude oil futures against the US dollar during the oil price rose.