“Will this bubble tank the future middle class? “
Yes, at least for the near future. We had best start preparing the kids and grandkids for some seriously lowered expectations.
“President Barack Obama and his fellow progressives push theories of manmade global warming, and current energy policy is built on those theories.”
You have it half right - the theory being used as the reason for the policies.
But the exact purpose of the policies is: how to create whole new classes of beneficiaries of government policies that will become whole new classes of election campaign contributors to the politicians that promote the policies. Once a political thug always a political thug.
The global warming bubble is a tribute to the foolishness of pop culture, pop science and social engineering by globalist pigs.