"forgot about asteroids plowing into the Earth, Super Novas, Aliens attacking....Have I left anything out?"
How about this frightening scenario ...
Leftwing Moonbat becomes US President. Iran takes US hostages and boycotts their oil, Communists take over a central American country, Asian Muslim country is invaded by a competing superpower, a war starts in the middle east ...
oh wait, that *happened*. (Thank you Jimmah)
(Another point - despite all that happening in 1979 and 1980, the price of oil hit around $70-80 in today's terms ... so predictions of prices way beyond that are imho just scaremongering nonsense.)
I can always drive 55 or slower.