Life without energy is cruel and short. Do we really want to go back to the 19th century?
Technology of the early 18th century with the morality and culture of the 21st. Heaven help us.
Try the 10th or 11th century. The current occupants of the White House will be quite content to rule over a world lit only by fire as long they believe that they'll be the ones in the high castle. Millions of us dead. The rest of us in chains. That's the goal. Some of them have even said as much.