I hear in OKC they are requiring a device on your electric in some areas. My GF sister complains that they can't control heat/air and it's been to cold this winter (they didn't have a choice).
I told her welcome to 1984 what is being put into place to save energy sound good but what's the real agenda? IMO it's to ration energy (carbon footprint), wait and see it won't be a couple years they just need to gear up and include everyone.
I hear if your rich it won't affect you much since you can buy credit from other companies or people.
It can only happen to us if we let it happen. There is no reason why I have to cut down on electricity use. Electricity is what took us out of the dark ages, I don't plan to go back. It is all about control, Left Wing ideas.
To get back to the topic of the government forcing up prices....show me where the administration has encouraged new exploration or drilling, and significantly ramped up new production? The only thing we've seen if the halting of existing production.
I can show you where the government has raised the prices.
http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html
One wonders if the green weenies will still feel the same when they and their children are freezing to death in the dark or being baked to a crisp at high noon in the middle of summer when mideast oil runs out or other nations outbid us on the commodities market for it?
I have a different view of the future. If we continue on this path, I have no doubt that we will continue to get weaker, to the point that we may lose the country itself. The fact that we were able to afford and were capable of building weapons that gave us an edge, is no longer true. We have turned in to something that does not resemble the buttkicking Americans of the past.
We are a nation controlled by lobbies both foreign and domestic with policies that no longer make sense.
BTW the Chinese are drilling closer to the US (in Florida) than the US is allowed to drill.