We know Biden and Dems are not tough on oil and were never going to be. But oil thinks they could have. So you raise prices citing inflation. Nobody can stop you because you're the oil industry. People get mad over prices and put pressure on the admin. The admin makes decisions that benefit oil and back off on a climate agenda that was going to be lax anyways. You can read the public consensus as opposing the end of oil.

Oil will never stop. They're not going to volunteer themselves into being poor. The only way it ends is to make it end with military force and nationalize the industry. Then you can turn off the spigot. There's not a single reform or private-public mechanism that will stop oil. They will fight to their graves for the right to kill us all. Might as well oblige them.