As opposed me paying indirectly and directly for all the subsidies for the petroleum industry?

> Global explicit subsidies for fossil fuels amounted to around $1.5 trillion in 2022. […] The $7 trillion figure includes the social and environmental costs of fossil fuels.

https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-subsidies-fossil-fuels

Why do you think anybody was operating under the assumption that this was free? But keeping your car topped up now is hardly free either, especially lately, so the question is really about cost comparison. And that's before you get into any externality costs.