This. Fossil fuels do have huge costs. Costs in terms of climate destruction Pollution and deaths from respiratory illness (think gas stoves) Loss of democracy - most large oil producing countries are not democracies wars and war equipment, like Tomahawks and aircraft carriers bribe money lots of expensive advertising The fossil fuel economy has their own feedback loops: Energetic ones, energy is needed to extract oil. And lots of cheap capital - this is why the 2008 financial crisis was linked with an oil price crises. All this isn’t helped by the fact that most of the cheap oil that the world had, was already extracted. Oil extraction becomes more and more expensive. Politically, it is a kind of power system that stabilizes itself. Like the old UDSSR’s system. You know what happened with the Sowjet bloc? it collapsed. At some point, it gets too expensive. You see that, ironically, in Iran: Mass protests because in spite of the heaps of money moved, the population lacks proper food and income. And in the US? Very few very rich people, and many which are barely scratching by. The thing is - at some point, these feedback loops come to a halt, and go into an reverse cycle. The rising of cheap renewable energy and storage technology is only accelerating that. Oil extraction is getting more expensive, political and societal costs are rising (who wants to have a family member dying in Iran?), and the alternatives are becoming cheaper. My take is that this will now a quick and swift change into another system. The way we organize and distribute power, in every sense of the word, will profoundly change and will be completely re-organized within no more than two decades. Probably only ten years.