I think people anywhere can, with determination, change things and do so very quickly. Which is good and bad. For now the USA allows oil rich states to profit from their own resources - this is only because the USD is the reserve and oil is priced in USD. In effect, the USA owns the oil as it's priced in our currency which we print by the trillions and can continue to print. Oil OTOH is finite, when it's gone its gone. If our economy crashes or doesn't crash, I think this will remain the case so long as we need oil simply because we have the most powerful military by miles.The US military, sure.
The US in general, lol, not a chance.
Not that I want that. I wish we would move to alternative energy. So I have invested in those companies that provide energy without (or little) use of oil. That's may part. If everyone did their part, maybe we wouldn't be invading Libya?