Who would benefit from very high crude prices?
The USofA is an oil exporter, as is Iran, and RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
Maybe even Venezuela could find a market for their high sulfur sludge? If their bureaucrats could manage to plan how to produce it...
The oil company shareholders would benefit, ordinary consumers would not. Faceless multinational corps like BP and ExxonMobile aren’t going to be giving their high priced oil away for cheap.