And that $5.2 trillion doesn't include compensation for the 4.2 million people who die every year due to fossil fuel pollution.
But a big house is better?
You're making all this a means to an end, but we haven't gotten to the end yet.
The end the means of petroleum created is death.
That's neither needed nor better.
There's a lot of things that contribute to mortality, sitting in front of a computer screen and writing HN comments being one of them.
Attributing these deaths to pollution is a statistical cherrypick.
You implicitly assume some sort of "100% renewable transportation" scenario that is very far into the future, if at all feasible.