Aside from leading to a much cleaner and healthier environment, one of the most important benefits if such a transition is that it would break the hold that the big oil companies have over all of us, and obviously over our governments as well. Thais is shown throughout the unfolding saga of the BP's Gulf of the Mexico oil spill, and since the well has been capped and now plugged it has been doing everything it can to declare the whole sad affair over and done with.