When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.