According to one of my teachers he said if you want to confuse people be the first to test it and declare it evil, the western world having a futuristic plan on what the value of oil will be in the nearest future have to create and agenda against it that will make the people who who have been more profitable than them stay clear, when you think of it rationally you would have known that the value of crude cannot be underestimated, just like we know that even the batteries the renewable energies would have still required contents from crude oil hence, looking at bitcoin too it was made evil for the people just for them to later part on it.
Why are you people always so quick to look for a conspiracy in everything? When you say "the people who have been more profitable", who are you referring to exactly? So you believe the West are running an agenda against fossil fuels because they are not profiting from it, or someone else is benefiting more?
15 of the top 20 largest oil companies are based in America and Europe. If you look at the top 50 biggest oil companies, about 30 are companies in Canada, the US and Europe, so how exactly are they not profiting from it? It is not in their best interest for the world to stop using oil.
People may exaggerate it by making it seem like oil is no more useful, or it would be no more useful in 10 years, but I feel only people without brains believe that. Aside from renewable energy, there are a lot of different things that require oil products. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue better alternatives to it.
Do you know there was a very big industry built on whale oil in the 1800s? I mean, companies were built, and ships were bought based on whale oil. It was so big then that they were equivalent to the oil companies of today. At the time, if you told people then that the oil from the ground would put them out of business, they would have laughed at you. The point is, the world is ever-changing. Because the world can't do without something today doesn't mean it will stay that way forever.