Anyone heard of an Operator fixing a portion of remuneration from the Oil Companies to the price of a barrel?! Cheap flights and continued exploration during hard times and then a nice bonus when the shareholders also get a whack of the exorbitant profits! Instead when the price is low they successfully whinge and get ridiculously priced rates to keep going! Good on those that are standing up to this treatment. (But don't forget - you won't see the payouts either unless you are a shareholder! - perhaps the Bolivian President's words ring true!)
And so why bother to make any effort to keep production going when it only raises the price even further as there is a perceived lack of supply. The militants achieve their aim, they wouldn't benefit from any of the government earnings from it in any case! Win, win! All good fun!