Monopoly. That's what oil is about. The elite of the world saw 150 years ago that petroleum was the future, so they focused on monopolizing it. They own the oil fields and refineries. What fields they don't own they get their privately-owned governments to declare off limits to drilling, thus maintaining a choked supply of the stuff. They fed us a lie about oil being a "fossil fuel" that's not replenishable. That lie's been thoroughly debunked. The earth spews up oil constantly. It's a renewable resourse. Alternative fuel sources have been suppressed by the monopolists. When Jimmy Carter was president, The China Syndrome was released into movie theaters, then 2 weeks later we had the Three Mile Island incident. The result was a stifling of the expanding nuclear industry and a continuation of oil dependence. The same people who ran Carter run Obama, so look for another nuclear incident if he gets into office. He'll "have" to continue polluting. He also has strong ties to the antiquated coal gassification operations in his home state of Illinois, too, so he'll sell you on that nasty industry somehow. Oil is everywhere, but the people who control it also control the media and feed you lies.