[anatolfz]

This oil business is a difficult topic. I don't think anybody agrees on the implications of control and pricing.
For example, the U.S. actually could find enough oil on their own territory. Never mind Alaska, there is oil deep down in OK and TX; just very expensive to exploit. So it's not about oil, it's about money.

[Stavka2]

Ahh, but oil is money. In an earlier age it was steel, before that bananas or gold...but always a commodity. US marines used to bleed all over Latin America because of the banana or sugar plantations..aka Banana Republic (Latin America)