[OpusatFR]

The USSR (Russia - to the youngsters) also had enormous energy reserves but kept the people cold and energy starved.

Has nothing to do with energy and everything to do with controlling people.

[cripplecreek]

I live in Michigan and we have all the heat and electricity we need right under my feet. Too bad the feds and state have made it virtually untouchable. Fred Upton was one of the idiots who voted for the great lakes directional drilling ban.

[freekitty]

I would not be adverse to throwing Obama in jail along with the people behind him.

[lentulusgracchus]

Has nothing to do with energy and everything to do with controlling people.

DING DING DING DING!! No more calls, please, we have a winner!

Artificial scarcity, with which to play "devotion games" with the public. "You really believe in us, right? You bellyfeel Ingsoc, right? You bellyfeel Big Brother, right?"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you’re on to something.

[familyop]

"Has nothing to do with energy and everything to do with controlling people."

Yep. Many of the elite folks will try to keep everyone else as busy and uncompetitive as they can. I know of public school teachers, police, planners, administrators and other government employees and retirees, who have invested in both electric and gas energy companies. If one kind of energy goes up, they push to have rates in the other hiked. ...same people who push to regulate against any kind of productive business that a man might try to start (local zoning against tiny manufacturing, regulations and taxes against small agriculture, etc.).

[ballplayer]

Make fossil fuel so expensive it will be Comparable to the solar Panels that are less reliable