Put our boot heels on their necks by doing what? Big talk with strong metaphors sounds great, but there’s no real world thing we can do. The only way a buyer can force a seller to do anything is buy not buying, but when it comes to oil that’s not an option. We can’t stop going to work, stop lighting our homes, and stop eating food, we can’t not buy. We can’t not buy, we have no boot heel.
The vast majority of the speculators live and work here in the U.S. It would be easy enough to round them up and start looking into their financial transactions.