A lot of the new players who are doing the dailies are running out of fuel for their refurb Sleipnirs.
Of course this opens a market to sell oil, but the problem lies in that there is a minimum of 1 ped markup, most of the newbies will be only buying a couple ped of oil at a time and 1 ped markup on a small stack of oil is not good for them.
So we need to have space mobs at a low enough level for noobs to grind and make sure oil is on the loot table.
Of course, they will need an entry level weapon to do this (TT Light Laser)