Many of the world's commodities are traded in US Dollars. If the price of oil goes up, the price of other things do too regardless of what they are or where the transaction takes place. This is largely due to the higher cost of transportation and electricity.
It must be more complex than that, but that is my 5th grader explanation.
Originally Posted by ICU 812
It’s far more complex than that and your premise is wrong. OPEC and Russia have kept the price of oil high. We can’t add more oil to the market than we are currently to drive the price down in any significant way. Oil companies are not drilling to the extent they can because it’d decrease their profit margin, not because of anything the administration is doing. Oil executives have admitted this before congress.
Also, were they to begin to increase production OPEC would increase production preemptively to force US oil companies from continuing that increase as it would cause US firms to halt because they’d lose money(cost of production would be more than the return). And if US oil continued, they’d quickly lose money.