Oil scams are a thousand layers deep. Its not just "Haha! Do this rather than burning coal, suckers!" The land leasing, the transportation and shipping, the manufacturing, the retailing, the administration and management, the wholesale markets... I mean, ffs. points frantically at Enron points even more frantically at Zapata Petroleum

The Energy Sector has always been a pile of grifts stacked born by the weight of this critical infrastructure.