Que Bono, part I: Has money no smell?

Blogdom,
The Romans aptly pointed out that money has no odor by which we may judge it's provenance. But it does not escape many people nowadays that sometimes it bears a faint aroma of unintered dinosaur bones preserved and concentrated in vast obvious pools under sandstorms erasing the footprints of the blind camel destiny. However, somebody out there has propogated the idea that the state of Texas, with it's comparatively small reserves, and American corpos out of Michigan, whose product is machinery, not oil, are the perpetrators of the corrupt business of preventing the occurence of an overdue alternative energy push. Common sense dictates that those who benefit the most from keeping oil valuable are those who own the oil reserves, and that those who do business with them have only temporary and incidental interests in the current state of energy. The paper trail does in fact validate this guess--so long as one is willing to accept the proposition that the mad cowboys and troglodyte car-makers can, respectively, draw new contracts and connections, and make new engines rather easily. I accept this proposition. Therefore, beyond the oily smell, it is appropriate to look to the owners of the wells,not the middlemen. Their amazing influence in world politics today inspires in me the following response. Push alternative energy with big dollars, first for environmental reasons, but second, and not unimportantly, to let the clowns and butchers dance in their oil fields.