Trump's slim toolkit to cool oil prices faces tough odds

President Trump touts a plan to dampen oil prices—escorting Gulf tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, offering political-risk insurance, and even threatening Iran with strikes on power plants—but the piece argues his levers are limited and unlikely to meaningfully lower prices, which are driven by global supply-demand dynamics and geopolitical risk; any relief would require broader, harder-to-achieve supply-side solutions or cooperation among producers.