Trump Forced by Oil War Into Unthinkable Push for Higher Prices

摘要

Donald Trump is trying to do something no U.S. president has dared to do in decades: Drive up the price of oil.For more than three decades, U.S. presidents proclaimed cheap fuel as an almost God-given right for Americanmotorists and homeowners, shaping the country’s foreign policy in pursuit of lower prices. As president, Trumpdidn’t just back cheap crude, he was its biggest supporter, frequently attacking OPEC and celebrating the shaleboom’s deliverance of “energy dominance.”