When you said "he cannot nor does he have the power to raise even domestic prices at will!", I disagree. Oil production was artificially high to drop prices in the 3 weeks before Nov elections.
Considering Exxon made 10 BILLION in Q3 of 2006, that Bush himself is worth over a billion, and that the Saudi oil interests would have been MUCH better served by oil subsidies with a Repub led congree from 06 to 08, I think you can probably calculate motive to influence prices that would range in the hundred billions.
Of course, it's a good thing Bush1 has the moral authority to not abuse his powers, connections, or positions to assist his partners in earning hundreds of billions of dollars.
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