If we are conserving then additional capacity will serve to lower the price even farther. Adding more fuel to a growing available supply does not raise prices. (I know what is in the ground is limited iu am talking about what is currently available to be used.)

Oil is the resource we are geared to use. We can continue to develop and deploy other resources but until they are developed and deployed we have to use what is available.

Another analogy is the man in the desert who is found dead of dehydration though he has three gallons of clean drinkable water in his possession. he died because he was saving his water for later.

We have technology in the pipeline for the future and it will work, but meanwhile we have to use what we know works and what is available. A man who makes 13 dollars an hour and has 4 more years to pay on his gasoline vehicle cannot go buy a 45 thousand dollar hydrogen car.

The infrastructure for new systems have to be deployed and phased in just as ownership of new technologies by consumers must be phased in. But just forcing the entire working class into bankruptcy while no other alternatives are immediately available is wrong.