Why Is the Oil Industry Still Thriving?

Because many consumer goods are made out of plastic derived from petroleum feed stock? Because it's still more energy-dense than other forms of energy? Because people don't want to have a lower quality of life? Because ICE cars still have more range and affordability than electric? Because the power-grid reliability is not easy to have faith in? Because people are still being born? Because extreme weather necessitates the need to have natural gas generators? My brother, is a staunch environmentalist. After he had babies, he is now, buying, boxes of diapers, regularly, and the trash bin becomes full of them. Single-use plastic, and before, he HATED single-use plastic. He was the most, anti, single-plastic-use KNIGHT EVER! SO NOBODY, IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, CONSISTENT, IN THEIR SO CALLED BELIEFS. EVERYBODY MAKES CONCESSIONS. You are typing away at a plastic keyboard, because plant-based keyboards, don't exist, yet. But yes, all food additives derived from petroleum, should be replaced with their plant-based counterpart, not because of carbon, which is a benign element, but because of health. Also, the majority of modern medicine and pharmakia uses petroleum derived chemicals, yet, naturopaths, and pharmaceutical-skeptics, vaccine-skeptics, are denigrated by the left. So ya.