What economic purpose does an artificial scarcity of any and all forms of energy serve?
People will swiftly adopt any source of energy that has acceptable costs, so long as it is not more expensive than what it replaces. But to arbitrarily increase costs, with no compensating offsets or benefits, is tantamont to rationing, a bad idea whenever it is applied. What we have today is another form of the stagflation we were suffering under the misguided agenda of the Carter Administration, with energy costs substituting for the outrageous interest rates that then prevailed.
Remember the push in this country under Carter to adopt the metric system? We still have miles, gallons, pounds and acres. I know what a kilometer, a liter, a kilogram and a hectare are. I just don’t care.
There is no “economic purpose”, unless you count “crashing the American economy” as an economic purpose.
It’s part of the control agenda. People who can’t afford energy become dependent. And when they’re dependent, they’re controlled.
Energy is LIFE. Without energy, our lives are pretty much forfeit.