Hello Tyler,
I dont know about the Oil but I can tell you about my corporate ex-colleagues. They don't take kindly to it! FE is a direct threat to their way of life. They don't want to hear it. "If what you say would be true then I would have wasted my life working here and building this career for me! I cannot and I will not accept this!".
Perhaps a more passive approach will work better ? Let them ask you first? For example when you get into a discussion about worlds issues you could say: "Don't you think that all this boils down to an energy scarcity issue?" And then see how far they will let you argument your position .. It's not "all about the money"... it's all about "the energy!"