oiligarchy

There's also an army of right-wing radio hosts, PR firms, and neocon think tanks deliberately downplaying ecological degradation in the interests of the ruling oiligarchy. I hope your readers are pressuring editors and station managers in the same manner that Rush Limbaugh's "dittoheads" do.

(A Chevron oil tanker bears her name!) With Bush himself coming from the oil industry, as do so many in his Cabinet, oil is likely to top the list of US interests in Africa as defined by the Bush "oiligarchy."