The government is the most inefficient use of resources, so keeping resources out of the government's hands should be the best for growing the economy.
Yea, the government requires lots of waste to exist. Humans used to be hunter gatherers, then as soon as they started creating surplus, the predator class (govt) arose from that surplus. It seems like peak conventional crude oil (which appeared to happen in 2004) will force the state to scale back most of it's power unless it can replace all of it's current waste with fusion energy or having a dangerous fission plant every few feet.