[The Gaijin]

They don't want to kill the golden goose. i.e - the mostly poor (think about it) oil producing nations of the world ideally do not want to over-tax the productive (rich or getting richer) nations of the world.

My long term prediction is they are addicted to our petro-dollars, euros, rupies, yuan and yen more than we are to their oil. But they are poor and pretty much half baked in their schemes. We will use less, develop other sources of energy and they will still be poor and backward..

Greed 101 - it always bites you back.