Nope, I don't get it. If oil has run out, those are some real expensive Molotov cocktails!

The song has too many internal consistencies to form a coherent argument. Perhaps we should invite Ms Crow to communicate through the medium of a blog post, rather than song lyrics?

Oh my god... it's art, for crying out loud, not a Ph.D. dissertation.

Way back in the year of 2017
The sun was growing hotter
And oil was way beyond it's peak,

I think she knows what peak oil is. And in case you haven't noticed, homo sapiens is anything but a rational creature.