OPEC is an alliance of state-owned oil producers in the Middle East, and their influence on global oil prices were seriously curtailed when the US started producing more oil - if attempts by global warming activists to limit oil production in the democratic developed world were more successful that'd really help give them back power. Also, there's not really an OPEC analog for natural gas but the ESG movement seems to have had similar effects in practice.
I reckon the comment you're replying to is exactly right - people have been mislead about their interests and the effects of specific policies on them. Specifically, the media has pushed for fossil fuel production to be cut back without first tackling the need for it and told people that the reason governments won't do this is because it'll hurt big oil's profits, and then when this had the opposite effect that it was the result of corporate profiteering, and that any claims to the contrary were just big oil propaganda. People bought this because it fit into their existing view of the world and all their friends did. Of course, this couldn't possibly work as advertised because it'd require consumers and the industries supplying them to burn fossil fuel that's not actually available. The whole reason prices go up and consumers can afford less is because the fossil fuel demand at previous levels of consumption can no longer be supplied.
It's like mortgage, the existence of mortgages hurts the home buyers and increases the price of homes. You have to compete with other people willing to enslave themselves with long mortgages to buy the house.
But approach a simple minded person and he'll say, "how can you get a house without mortgages"?
People are so quite bad at understanding the interests behind actions and instead buy the misleading narrative that pushes them to do the complete opposite.
Everyone's predicting the weather is going to become more chaotic yet the conclusion is that somehow we should rely on it to produce energy. Want to guess what would happen when that backfires? Oil makes a comeback and these people take a huge unearned profit.
I think any solution to climate change that involves relying on the climate is absolutely bonkers. It's ridiculous. You have leaders flying jets and having coast line houses lecturing you about climate. Watch what they do not what they say. Words lie but actions betray thoughts.
I reckon the comment you're replying to is exactly right - people have been mislead about their interests and the effects of specific policies on them. Specifically, the media has pushed for fossil fuel production to be cut back without first tackling the need for it and told people that the reason governments won't do this is because it'll hurt big oil's profits, and then when this had the opposite effect that it was the result of corporate profiteering, and that any claims to the contrary were just big oil propaganda. People bought this because it fit into their existing view of the world and all their friends did. Of course, this couldn't possibly work as advertised because it'd require consumers and the industries supplying them to burn fossil fuel that's not actually available. The whole reason prices go up and consumers can afford less is because the fossil fuel demand at previous levels of consumption can no longer be supplied.