I’d also suggest that rate of production is a serious element. How fast and at what volume are they able to process the sludge back into a usable state? On the above linked website, their faq identifies at least three different processes and handling methods determined by the state of the sludge. So this isn’t a simple or even expedient process and will be limited by the specific technical and infrastructure demands of the method. If they can start producing a hundred thousand barrels a day from sludge, there remains a significant shortfall to in the refining supply chain which can’t operate efficiently or even at all at reduced thresholds.

The armchair propaganda and meme critic in me thinks this also conflates anti-imperial violence with imperial/settler-colonial violence and perhaps could better communicate the reality in some other way. Violence is necessary in struggles against violent oppression and resistance is not equivalent to ethnic cleansing, genocide, economic siege, or liberal coups.