i'll grab what i can, planet be damned

And so it shall be.

Obviously you've hit the nail on the head : that's the real ideology of "Peakoil Tarzan". He's no different at all from the corporations he so "despises" (except when they make him stuff obviously), but he's jealous of their apparent budgets, and the attention they (but really their "stuff", say, oh the iphone) keeps getting.