Gosh, these guys really are following the big tobacco playbook, huh?

"Oil isn't evil, it's just a material, it doesn't have will or consciousness."

He's right of course, the oil itself isn't forcing anyone to use it. It's the decades of collaboration between the fossil fuel lobby and the government that's entrenched our fossil fuel dependent infrastructure, along with the resolute refusal of all fossil fuels companies to turn their backs on making as much money as they possibly can right this instant (because smart long term growth is illegal, brain dead quarterly growth is now my friend) and make good on their promises to pivot their energy portfolios.

In so many words, oil isn't evil, but the people running the oil companies are.