If you want to find who has the vested interest in keeping things the way they are, look no further than those you elect.

I think that's one of the major points some of us have been trying to make. In the US, you'd be hard pressed to find a member of the current administration who is not heavily entrenched in the oil bidness in one way or another. Only it's their own pockets they're lining, not the government coffers. In fact, their little adventures are creating the largest budget deficit in the history of the US. It's the taxpayers who are paying for all of this. Hidden costs.