OPEC
Conspiracy theories tagged "OPEC."
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OPEC Oil Embargo / Artificial Scarcity Conspiracy
Theories that the 1973 oil embargo was engineered not just as Arab retaliation but as part of a broader US-Saudi agreement to dramatically raise oil prices, strengthening petrodollar hegemony.
1973 · Saudi Arabia · OPEC, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon
Mixed
Petrodollar System / Oil-Dollar Monopoly
Examining the theory that the US dollar's global dominance is maintained through a secret 1973 deal requiring oil to be priced in dollars, enforced by American military power.
1973 · United States · Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, King Faisal
Unresolved
Peak Oil as Manufactured Scarcity
Was 'peak oil' a deliberately promoted scare to keep oil prices high? The Hubbert curve, the oil industry's motives, and the debate over manufactured scarcity.
1956 · United States · M. King Hubbert, Colin Campbell, Kenneth Deffeyes