Arturo Frondizi defended extreme oil nationalism and the YPF monopoly in his famous book Oil and Politics. His detractors stigmatized him as a “seller of the country’s oil, but let's let him defend himself against the accusations he received.
The proclaimed “energy sovereignty” meant for the country an accumulated expenditure on energy subsidies of 175.5 billion dollars (2004-2023) and a loss of foreign currency of 70.5 million dollars. The “people” hold this kind of collective or community property of which the “anti-people’ want to strip them.