If crude oil and natural gas haven't been at 10s of thousands of feet deep in the underground but rather on a flat ground, well put into tanks to be exploited - it will take more energy to make the exploited oil and gas ready and arriving at the end point of use than the energy in the stuff exploited - unfathomably more. "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).