Created millions of jobs? You factoring the number of jobs lost? I’m going to take a guess that digging up and refining oil provides more jobs per kilowatt than engineers on a wind/solar farm.
Like Andy said we are all for moving to cleaner energy and cleaning up our messes, but not because of a supposed “crisis” and not at the speed that it hurts our economy and standard of living.
How many jobs were needed to build the infrastructure that supports our oil industry? The amount of work to build/maintain renewable energy as a primary source would be massive.
And it’s not like they’d blow up all the oil companies, there will still be a large need for oil for years to come, so we aren’t talking about removing every oil job in existence, but they would likely be scaled back significantly over time.
Oil companies are already scaling back their workforce, and more will be lost to automation. Even if nothing is done to move towards renewable energy, there will continue to be a loss of jobs due to other factors. There were 100,000 employees at Exxon/Mobil in 2000, that number is now 70,000.
Jobs are already being lost, and will continue to be lost, regardless of what happens with renewable energy. It would likely be a significant net gain in jobs.