What does any of that have to do with oil helping us through the recession? You're the revisionist, you don't like oil and will spin things accordingly any way you can because it doesn't fit your agenda.
Oil is dirty, it would be better if it never existed and we all drove electric cars, but it has helped our economy, those are facts.
I'm certainly not alone in that opinion. Oil was helpful if you were invested in oil. Otherwise, it wasn't:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/10/dutch-disease-canada_n_5798954.html