Wait, are you saying we ... enslaved oil? Type Error! I'm reading that wrong, right?

Well that would depend heavily on how you define slavery.

Most people probably consider slavery something that can only be imposed on another human. I'd be in the minority considering animals raised in industrial farms and meat operations to be enslaved. I'd be in an even smaller minority to consider that plants raised in commercial fields may be enslaved, there is at least the possibility that plants may experience the world around them and their existence in it more than we give them credit for.

I don't know that I'd say we enslaved oil, I'd say we enslaved nature more broadly.