If you actually read through it, and clicked on the any of the multitudes of links provided as sources, you would not be so quick to disregard it as "Scare Tactics".

The end theory--that this will create massive global strife--might be exaggerations, but common sense dictates that it cannot be an exaggeration of all that great magnitude. And certainly it is common-sense that common energy sources in general cannot last much longer.
What leads you to believe I didnt read the article? Was it the fact that I quoted it or the fact that I used examples out of it to make my point?

You yourself admit to the obvious exagerations in the article. Simply because you like what you've read does not make it any less of a piece designed to scare people.