With oil production collapse (9.1% annually according to the IEA) will come a collapse of the entire economy, including essential services, food production and so on.

From a clinical point of view, it would be far easier for the elites to eliminate a portion of the unsustainable human herd than to attempt to control them as they become less controlable during shortages.

The elites manafactured a pre-meditated war in the middle east for purely strategic reasons that killed 1 million.

Human life is apparently meaningless to them.

Didn't 40 "Al Qaeda" (western intelligence assets?) recently kill themselves by "accident" with a "black plague" weapon? (surely some variety created in a western bio-weapons lab)

Developing "survivalist" skills and a Plan B would be wise.