An Oil Rush?

I think that it is very interesting to note that the book and a lot of people said that it wasn't necessarily a good thing for there to not be a huge population around the oil because of course that means that only a few people get all of the money, had there been a lot of people around the oil areas in the different valleys that it appears in, then  I think that almost a Gold Rush would have happened because a lot of people would all be digging around different spots, looking for the prized oil.  There would certainly be repercussions from this causing the price to shoot up as more people have less oil each, and then down as they tried to outbid each other.  There would also be problems over who owns what oil, the quality of land because of all of the collecting, as well as some oil probably being wasted (and being used up) as someone finds it unexpectedly and it spouts u  p on them unexpectedly.  One good thing that would have happened though was that it might have boosted the economy a little in the area, as all of the people need food, shelter, and supplies. 

 (Yes I finally caught up! (and sorry for not writing a lot on the map, being probably the last one to write on this didn't leave me a lot of options))