This helped to realize that our lens is a bit skewed. Oil and gas - _when compared with solar, wind, etc._ - aren't energy per se, they are batteries. The ener

This helped to realize that our lens is a bit skewed. Oil and gas - _when compared with solar, wind, etc._ - aren't energy per se, they are batteries. The energy is stored and all we do is release it. On the other hand, wind and solar need to be created from scratch - and until we get better batteries - are released immediately. We're not usually comparing apples to apples but batteries (tradional energy sources) to from-scratch energy (solar and wind).