Tunisia, Egypt, Libya - democracy or oil?

It had to happen that way. The collapse of systems in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya was only a matter of time. And these people have a right to enjoy freedom and democracy. No matter who you speak to in the UK at the moment about the current events – everyone seems to agree to this or similar statements. However, if we look a bit closer at the current events and the consequences for us one comes to the following result. We have failed. We sold our weapons and our surplus products, our highly-subsidized food to these despots. We fished from their waters and brought them into dependency from "Western democracies". We exploited Africa and still do today. We curse the despots and look with one eye on the fuel pumps. The dead in the stricken countries are secondary. We are concerned but only about the prices at the pumps. And we think hopefully all theses people will not come to us. This fear drives us. We are not interested in the least in creating democracy in these countries, but how we can get their oil and raw materials cheaply. Is it so or are we better ? Can we accept higher oil prices and more foreign people in our country in the name of democracy or are we really so selfish? Is oil all that matters, even for ordinary people?