Plenty of average folks who own oil stocks. I bet they prefer this to the days in the mid 1980's when oil was $11/barrel and I and about 300,000 of my closest, dearest buddies were laid off from the oil patch.
When it comes to oil prices, be careful what you wish for. When oil prices plunged, Iraq became strapped for cash. So, they produced more oil. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough, so they invaded Kuwait because they had large reserves. That started a chain of events that leads to the **** going on in the Middle East today.