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While there have been times when OPEC members have been disciplined enough to effectively leverage the market in their favor, the organization doesn't really have the root clout or the continued long-term discipline (they cannot even agree on someone root to head the organization right now!) to do it constantly or consistently. A market mechanism, root of sorts, works between consuming and producing nations, especially with the coming in the 1980s of the global spot market for crude oil. In addition, each producing country has its own strategy to follow as well, because the size and quality of their reserves differ as well. While the organization has had its hawks in the past, who believe that consuming nations are hooked and can be gotten for all they are worth (Qadhdhafiy's Libya was a good example of this in the 1970s, as was the Shah's Iran), most understand the laws of economics: if a good is too expensive, consumers will find an alternative.
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