What do you mean by "America". The American government, Barack Obama, contrived to raise the price of oil. It was the free market that drove the price down despite the government's efforts.
Come on, fair comment requires that you at least quote the whole sense and preserve the context. Here is the whole quote and the context:
The good news, America has contrived to reduce the worldwide price of oil in the teeth of bitter opposition from the administration forcing Russia on a course for reckoning.
