1.  Today's civilized world uses a wide range of directly distilled products, byproducts and oil derivatives to provide energy for everything from manufacturing to farming to cooking, cleaning, shopping, going to and from work, to entertainment and more. All that makes being industrialized comfortable is provided by energy originally delivered as energy from the sun and today derived from energy stored in oil.

3.  The industrialized nations are in a precarious position under OPEC's control because they have failed to develop:

4.  The United States should immediately:

5.  Leadership will be needed before the industrialized nations can organize to develop a policy.

6.  The industrialized nations should join together, develop a plan, and confront the oil producing nations that belong to the OPEC cartel as well as the non-OPEC oil producers to implement a high-level long-term policy and supply arrangement.

7.  Reasonably priced and available oil supplies are essential to support today's civilization and provide for evolution to more efficient forms of energy.  Industrialized nations should establish an Organization of Oil Consuming Nations, OOCN.

Since the early 1970s the industrialized nations have competed against each other while groveling under OPEC on its terms. Industrialized nations continue to be terrorized by the OPEC cartel's machinations, quasi-price fixing, and unenlightened management that has little understanding of productivity, progress or business.

The OOCN organization should provide a unified front to negotiate with OPEC on its scale.   OOCN should identify itself as OPEC's biggest -- and only -- customer. Even if any nation, including China, chose to not join OOCN, it would not be a large enough customer to support the ravenous needs of the OPEC cartel. The OOCN would still operate on a large scale to buy oil commensurate with OPEC's supply oligopoly.

OOCN would be mandated build a coherent Long-term Global Energy Policy, make long-term supply and price agreements with OPEC. Importantly, OOCN would be empowered to deal separately with non-OPEC oil producing nations. OOCN could fracture the OPEC oligopoly into a multi-lateral market consisting of buyers and sellers -- each needing to do rational deals.

A separate multinational coalition of energy consuming nations could elect to cooperate in an energy alternative program charged to coordinate oil, natural gas, hydroelectric, nuclear, coal, nuclear, geothermal, wind and fuel cell sources with user demand, and develop efficient, abundant, long-term alternative energy sources.

10.  Select the factors that you believe caused the recent price increase of oil.