Crude is one of the most valuable natural resources in the world but if you look around many oil producing states are facing serious economic challenges. Before now crude used to be valuable and made many countries wealthy but now nothing like that again. Is it that these natural resources are not enough to keep us going?
Hydro and electricity is making crude to become irrelevant that is why it is not bringing much value, and people still depend on crude.
You have started a good topic. Crude oil is no doubt losing some demand due to the supply of renewable resources like solar and Hydro (you wrote electricity instead of solar). But I will not say crude oil is losing its demand because it still has a lot of demand and supply too. So I won't blame renewable resources for the fluctuations and hardships a oil-producing country is facing. Because the main factors are
less management and
no planning.
For example, if a proper management will be taken place then no oil will be wasted, proper profits will be made and proper expenditure will be set. For example without planning and management, most of the oil authorities eat money in corruption, they don't spend those funds to build wealth instead they eat that wealth to fulfill there wishes. For example.
Norway made good plans, and invested there revnunew from crude oil into other long term assets that are making them good profit and brining easiness in there life. While Venezuela is facing more hardships due to bad management and total dependency on oil. More dependency on oil is bad, so if you are producing oil, diversify your source of income, as oil should not be your only source to make money.