This is a prosperous country. We will not live like Swedes. If you posit that we have fixed energy sources and we have to ration them, then we are dying as a species. The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use.
Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view.
Producing oil isn't so bad for the environment anyway. There were oil spills everywhere. Half the beaches in the United States were slathered in oil. Six weeks later all the birds were back. You couldn't get rid of the environment if you tried.