One frustration is that it didn't matter how many pump jacks I had going, I could never get to the point (so far) where I had lots of incoming oil.

-advanced electric pump jacks
-an entire new system of buildings to add steaming of wells and pump out more oil
-advanced drills and rigs to get more ...

I feel there is a lot of room to be able to research into higher tier power tech. I found that the only way to power lasers was to have the most rediculous solar panel and capacitor farm. Would be nice to have for example:

-advanced capacitor
-advanced solar panel
-sub station that actually ...