A bit tangential: it’s narratives like this which can create sudden crashes on the stock market.
Speculation at some point meets reality. This is when market crashes.
So, your proof is that some dire predictions in the past, about other things, by other people, were sometimes true?
I am not even predicting something.
The global oil & gas supply has been disrupted and cannot recover overnight as actual infrastructure is gone.
Someone will need to reduce consumption.
These are just facts and physics of supply & demand.
We can always debate on who will get hit more or what resources will be affected more.