Well, the people who got some of the billions of dollars in profit off the high prices, probably care.
I already questioned the reasons they were so high, or rather, I didn’t really have to, because I knew (i.e. I believed the various sources which indicated) it was essentially because the people and corporations which stood to profit could get away with it, that Iraq was invaded largely because Hussein was not playing along with allowing predictable oil prices, and so this was cashing in on the seizure of that ability.
Alternative energy is more important than any of that, however. Compared to the importance of the world ecology, I’m not so concerned about economic injustices, though those are worth changing for their own sake.