Seems to me there is a CO2 'bent' here in the story to be used later for justification to take control of everyone's liberty.
I’ve always wondered if oil wasn’t a deposit like iron or quartz rather than being made from decaying matter. I have zero science to back up my thought though.
1) The amount of microscopic plankton in the oceans is staggering.
2)There never was a "dinosaur-to-oil" theory.