Of course he's in it for the money. And he'll use & abuse as much govt loopholes & taxpayer money to get rich "quick". If it were entirely his money, sure he can get all the reward, but it's not all his money. It's our money, taxpayer money, that subsidizes much of his wealth.
You ask why people loathe oil whores. It's because their M.O. has been to systematically destroy renewable energy, lobby for rules & regulations that heavily favor coal & oil (e.g. virtually no responsibility for emissions), destroy stable & productive environments (e.g. mountaintop removal) and generally spread misinformation. They have been too successful at playing the lobbying game. The wealthier & bigger they get, the more monopolistic they behave, the easier it is for them to crush new potentially competitive technology, tech which almost always has a high capital investment and later becomes cheap. But that tech never gets a chance to reach the later stages because it's systematically dismantled.
Anyways, your cheap oil, big cars and endless highways are not the product of the Magic Powers of Capitalism. They are and have always been taxpayer subsidized industries. Buy whatever you want, but pay for it yourself.
