It’s always worth pointing out the fundamental usefulness of crude oil and its many, many products.

Most of the people reading this, for instance, derive most of their cells indirectly and directly from the incredible capacity of gasoline, diesel, plastic, rubber, etc., etc. that make their very being possible.

Absent crude oil, where would we get most of our food, clothing, and home goods?

The home garden is a nice side dish. For 99% of our calories, we need tractors, trucks, fertilizer, refrigeration, and we need masses of it, and we need it just in time, because food rots and spoils.

Whenever I see some do-gooder or climate activist from the west pen a scathing critique of oil or capitalism or fossil fuels, and I see them in their bio wearing their polyester shirts, well-fed on corn and rice and soybeans they clearly have never even tried to grow, I like to imagine they’re writing their pieces with a gun pointed to their temple and a noose around their neck. That way it makes them seem a little less full of shit.

For the rest of us without a gun to our heads who know where our food comes from and why we’re breathing our breaths and thinking our thoughts largely thanks to what oil has wrought, I think we’re about sick of the finger wagging from people who are half suicidal, whether they know it or not.