You can take it further and even argue that complex life is ultimately just a tool for increasing entropy (which the universe seems to enjoy doing). Digging th

You can take it further and even argue that complex life is ultimately just a tool for increasing entropy (which the universe seems to enjoy doing). Digging that oil up from the ground and the burning it does a tremendous amount to free up all that energy stored in a low-entropy system. The book Into the Cool makes an interesting case regarding this overall concept.