The use of oil-based products is important because it's part of the entire logistical/shipping system. Oil "won" because of its multifaceted abilities and thus

The use of oil-based products is important because it's part of the entire logistical/shipping system. Oil "won" because of its multifaceted abilities and thus could be embedded into the larger market whether nation-states and private businesses and for private usage. I don't see anyone arguing against wind and solar. I am just saying that they are by no metrics able to cover the energy usage we have not even close. Currently, we are talking around 1% of global energy needs and the places that rely on it heavily need support both from oil, coal and nuclear as we saw this summer where Denmark needed the Germans to fire up their coal to support as there was no wind because of the amazing summer they had. The point I am really making is that nuclear as a base clean form of energy is where we should be focusing our efforts and then use wind, solar, gas and oil as supporting in various situations. Unfortunately, the current political environment pushed by the environmentalist who claims to be against CO2 emissions yet are against nuclear, makes it an absurd and fruitless discussion. Focusing all this effort and money on wind and solar when they will not be able to actually support our current or future energy needs is exactly the wrong way to go and is my primary issue with this whole discussion.