If we shut down the oil industry or raise the price of oil, the price of EVERYTHING that we buy will increase. Oil is used to either manufacture or transport EVERY PRODUCT that we buy. The price of oil is factored into those prices.
Fossil fuels are inexpensive and plentiful. Converting to some other power source will cause massive inflation. In addition, it would put tens of thousands of people out of work.
In case people don't realize it, many other power sources require fossil fuels to create them. Coal and oil plants create a lot of our electricity. Some electric car charging stations are power by diesel. The damage to the environment caused by the manufacture and disposal batteries may be worse than the damage done by the fossil fuels that they are trying to replace.
Changing over from oil is a much bigger deal and much more complicated than many people realize.
What of the millions of people that are driving 10-20 year old cars and cannot afford to buy a new electric vehicle?
Increasing the price of oil or eliminating altogether will hurt the poorest among us the most.
All that and we don't even know for sure if it will change the environment enough to make any kind of significant difference.
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