......we are all benefitting, north south east and west all buy and use the oil, you have a habit of missing the vital bits of info out. Info such as every nation of all political and religious standpoints exploit the oil in the middle east, all of them. .....AND those oil producing nations benefit from the vast we health generated as a result. There may be questions over how that wealth is distributed internally in those countries, but what is a certainty, is that in fifty Yeats when viable oil production starts to slow and stop.....and technology gives us another power source, those middle east boom towns will once again start to return to the desolate dust bowls they once were,,....only this time the residents of these countries will start to migrate north and west......something I believe Nostradamus was said to have predicted in one of his translations.