<p>The totalitarian urge is ubiquitous in human history, though in the United States this has been more expressed as Nanny State, less Bolshevik Revolution. Familiar examples include dictating our food choices, demonizing smokers and, most forcefully, micro-managing personal energy consumption. These policies all begin with seductive claims that government intrusion will benefit everybody and cooperation will be largely voluntary; but as benign admonitions fall short, pressures via fines and taxes, even criminal sanctions grow more draconian.</p>