I agree, Steve.
I'm sure that every thinking Brit would agree with you, too.
That decade saw the increasing production and export of North Sea oil (much of it to eastern Canada), with a peak right at then end of the decade.
Brits have now discovered to their horror just how brief their oil bonanza was.
The seeds of their future (and probably permanent) oil & gas predicament were indeed sown during that decade.

Meanwhile, I would recommend two articles.
I just stumbled upon this brief 1999 article from Army Logistics magazine:
http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/JulAug99/MS406.htm

Second, this recent SSI paper explores the application of an ecological perspective to the problem of energy resilience (43 pgs):
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute...es/PUB1011.pdf