Ignoring the present doesn’t change the necessity of oil

MINOT, N.D. — Whenever I read some new screed against oil – and there’s a lot of them right now as left-wingers rally around the supposedly moderate Joe Biden administration’s executive action assault on the domestic oil and gas industry — I imagine the author finishing their piece, submitting it, and then toddling off to the ready convenience of their automobile for a trip to the gas station and a fill-up.