Mars settlements may get oil from Titan

This could be a huge benefit to permanent populations living in space or on other planets. Being able to get plastics, chemicals, medicines and other resources without going down Earth's gravity-well may be the critical difference that makes some settlements viable.

Titan Has More Oil Than Earth - Yahoo! News:
"Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today.

The hydrocarbons rain from the sky on the miserable moon, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. This much was known. But now the stuff has been quantified using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

'Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals,' said Ralph Lorenz, a Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. 'This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan.'"