We are to blame for not taking the wake up call in the 70s and allowing oil based fuels to maintain a monopoly while refusing to acknowledge that the world’s largest superpower needs to be energy independent. If we had started in ‘74, we would have achieved energy independence years ago. The profiteers are only guilty of exploiting the situation that we as a society created.
The wake-up call came about 1948 in the USA although in England it was about 1940. England didn’t do it because it would have been an easy target in war, and USA didn’t do it even though there was $10 billion available because foreign oil began to flood the market.