Sorry, but this is the same kind of gas as "sending Interpol to arrest bin Laden."
Of course you realize that anti-trust laws rely on force at the bottom.
For a lesson in holding economic pissing contests with an elephant, refresh yourself on the history of the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-1974. Tere is no workable mechanism to use U.S. or even international law to enforce our will on OPEC nations other than by simply buying less of their products.
The latter is feasible. We can open more of our own country to exploration and drilling, continue conservation and shifting our transportation to alternative fuels and electricity, start building nuclear plants to pick up the electrical transportation load when it arrives, and do more research into things like cellulose-derived fuels and coal-derived fuels. The best approach would be "all of the above."
Now, if we discover that an American citizen or someone who is actually under our jurisdiction is manipulating the oil market, you might have something.
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