It is a power grab. This is blatantly obvious, because the causes have fuck all to do with the sectors of the economy that actually use energy and resources. Banks dont care what the cost of oil is, except if they can corner the market in it. We are being robbed by people, not by mother nature, and we will go on being robbed by people until we regulate the financial sector into oblivion. Or, you know, burn it down. Any narrative which tries to explain this crisis as the inevitable workings of globalization/history/nature/xxxxx should be regarded with extreme suspicion, because that narrative is the standard lie used by exploiters to cover the fact that they are fucking someone over. TINA is always a lie. No exceptions.