You can do something yourself, or you can hire someone ($15), or you can buy 100 manhours of work from a gas station for $4. That's $1500 worth of labor for 4 bucks. It used to be 25 cents.

The world burns 100 million barrels of it every day.

Is it any wonder that politicians don't give a fuck about actual people living actual lives when they can sell oil instead? Is it any wonder that people drive everywhere for no reason except to move their car around?

Yeah, the human race is pretty much useless compared to the oil wells and cars. It's not a matter of what people will do about oil anymore: it's what oil and cars decide to do with people.