It is already underway. It may be stopped in some areas but it certainly isn’t in Texas, North Dakota and some others that have plenty of private land.
It really is like the “John Galt Line” from Ayn Rand’s book, “Atlas Shrugged”. They will bad-mouth and berate this “renaissance” all the while squeezing every dime they can out of it for themselves.
We’re essentially cheerfully building our own gallows.
That’s the key word: PRIVATE.
At some point, the government will nationalize all mineral and energy producing wealth, ‘for the good of the people.’........