Coal, natural gas, and oil provided affordable electricity, gasoline and diesel fuel for many years before the liberals decided that they didn't want us to have cheap fuel and electricity. Once they decided to run each minute detail of our lives things have become more expensive each year. Cheap energy could be available again if the government would get out of the way.
Cheap at the pump (or whateve final delivery system) does not mean that energy was cheap. We paid for it in more ways than at the retail level.
And it won’t be ‘cheap’ anymore ... even at the pump because there is more competition now for energy.