It's about time people woke up to the fact that oil is a scarce and valuable resource. Fossil fuels are a one time geological inheritance that our species will never see again once they have been used up.
The fact that certain businessmen have chosen to make use of the material merely as an ingredient in their profit making engines is crass and demonstrates ignorance on a frightening level.
I predict future generations will look back on our epoch and it's energy profligacy, shaking their heads in much the same way as we do now when we think about the slave trade.
Spain for 99 pence (plus taxes)! Get real.
And for those people who think the problem's all down to refining capacity, allow me to introduce my good friend, Mr Ostrich.