Paul in Hollywood: If you want people to produce oil for you, pay them for doing so. Basic free market principle.

I am not an admirer of John D Rockefeller, but he built the US oil bidness by assuring suppliers of income. Then the antitrust gurus took over and saw to it that increased production would mean loss of income. Business been going over there ever since.

Technically speaking, Pat Buchanan was correct some years ago when he stated that Hitler was not a threat. Neither was Tojo.
Rommel and Yammamoto however were of some concern.