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It's not propaganda, it's an unfortunate fact of almost all industrial processes that they require oil based products at one stage or another. I don't like it either but until/if these technologies can rely on renewable alternatives for such processes, they're not really green or renewable, and neither are the electronics that they power. Everyone seems to conveniently forget this. If you want true green technology and renewable energy, you're going to need to give up industry altogether. Which we'll probably end up doing when the coming climate catastrophe forces us all back to the stone age.
Mining equipment does not strictly need to be diesel powered. Rest of solar manufacturing uses electricity and heat, that also doesn't strictly need to be fossil fuel powered. When oil is used for plastics/tires/asphalt it is not burned and so does not create emissions.
Even if they do, they massively cut down on total pollution. They don't magically produce more pollution in one manufacturing process, than all the oil they are replacing that will be burned. That's nutzo.