Western Europe could use fuel injectors and vaporizers to vaporize gasoline to run power plants.
Oil heat could be used to heat European homes. Oil-based residential heating used to be common in the Northeastern US. My uncle paid 12 cents per gallon in 1948.
My house had oil heat up to 1988. I switched to propane, then nat gas was available.
Now leftys want to force me to all electric.