In the Mid-70's an oil crisis was manufactured and perpetrated upon an unsuspecting American public.
History tends to repeat itself because an identical situation is occurring today.
Every single citizen can be controlled - when a consumption product is controlled. This same scenario applies to foreign governments as well. That product is energy. The world is dependent on energy - for home, office, industry, lighting, heating, fuel, transportation and all delivery of goods. Price is not what they are after, even though they would like you to believe it is.