Everything that we do in our everyday lives will always depand on something, and there will always be doom-sayers telling us that we are about to run out of it, or that it is excessively influencing our foreign policy.
And there is the kicker, e-s.
To control a people you must first scare them so that they want protection.
Then you confiscate their means of defense with platitudes like, "for the common good", and, "for the protection of society".
The rest is easy.
Good to see you, BTW!