Yep, but in the world of corpoganda a totally avoidable oil crisis means you need moar oil which will worsen totally avoidable climate change, which will cause mass migrations which, you guessed it, will also be played to the benefit of right wing nutjobs in the press.

Ah, but we neeeeeeeed oil, so we'd best start increasing the amount we pump from the North Sea to make sure we have enough without needing to rely on bally old Vladamir.