Myself, I am having a great time filling up for $20 bucks.
But I see how the investing and banking class is now panicking. They have made TRILLIONS over the last 6 years from rising energy prices.
A free resource from the earth that God provided to us.
As some have pointed out here, energy was one of the few industries that has actually flourished since 2008. And contrary to Obama and the Media, I believe we have been in an actual Depression since 2008, whose worst effects have been masked by massive mounting debt and Food Stamps.
We could say the same about your labor. I'm guessing you consider it worth more than free.
I consider my mineral resources, just like the land above them, provided by God, but having value, and certainly not free to others.
I believe we have been in an actual Depression since 2008
Only if you make up your own definition for the word.