The problem is that the high price of oil transfers more wealth from the free West to hostile Islamist and Neo-communist countries. OPEC is made up of essentially Islamist and Communist countries.
The Saudis snubbed Bush, and Bush accepted it. This is a sign that America has lost control over its most essential energy resource, and its government has become impotent in protecting its national interests. We even have Iraq but pollitically unwilling to challenge OPEC by breaking Iraq from this cartel and threaten to produce more oil in spite of OPEC. It makes sense to do this because since we control Iraq, we can sell oil at market, saving America's wealth from getting lost to the Islamists, while the Chinese pay up instead. We would also have the power to control the price of oil, lower it and sqealch the wealth transfer to the Islamists.
By the way, you people out there who think "Big Oil" aka Exxon somehow controls the price of oil need to stop smoking those doobies.