Nope, they see the oil money as the important thing, and renewables aren't in their portfolios. The bigger economy and end-users are immaterial. See also what

Nope, they see the oil money as the important thing, and renewables aren't in their portfolios. The bigger economy and end-users are immaterial. See also what happened when Stephen Harper became PM of Canada: they stopped science funding that didn't appeal to their interests and even auctioned off the data (the libraries of actual collected statistics) from various research stations.