Ignoring climate or environmental concerns, fossil fuel is finite, and we waste it too much in my opinion. Do you know how many things like plastics, toothpaste etc requires fossil fuels? Isn't it better to curb our usage for things like electricity generation, which has "unlimited" alternatives to avoid having a shortage of various goods later on? As I said, I don't care about climate or environmental concerns, just the "its going to run out soon" part.
They only slept in the basement for one or two days, the situation was rectified afterwards. Just like other posts the situation is a little overblown and lacks context. By the time of the hotel offer they were no longer in the basement.
When where they not talking about "their" vaccination?