Without oil, wind turbines cannot exist

The equipment that builds the roads to the sites, prepares the sites and digs foundation holes have to have oil, the trucks that transport gearboxes and blades need oil. The gearboxes in wind turbines have to have oil, The plastics and composites, the wind turbines are made of come from oil. The ore for the metal parts wind turbines are made of is mined with machines that use oil.

Not one wind turbine can be manufactured, transported, installed, operated nor maintained without oil. Not one site for a wind turbine can be prepared without machines that depend on oil.

Shouldn’t the Energy Dept. be spending more on oil R&D and less on wind turbine subsidies?