Energy Monopolies

     What amazes me is that people so readily accept 
energy monopoly.  We are so easily convinced that energy 
production must be centralized therefor turning over 
control to corporate oligarchies who are polluting the 
water and evicting us from the land.
	 Our forefathers used to make all their own fuel.  
We could be energy independent if we lived on farms and 
produced our own alcohol fuel, of course that would have 
been before the world population grew to 100 plus people 
per square mile with their dependence on farm mass 
production and energy consolidation.  It's like rabbits 
in a bin.  If you put a pair of rabbits in a six foot 
square by six foot deep pen, and keep throwing in food, 
you'll soon have rabbits overflowing the sides of the 
pen.  With no predators and free food all they can do is 
breed.
	 We would not need anywhere near the amounts of 
energy we're dependent upon if we had to produce our own.  
We'd find ways to save energy boiling water, a big energy 
consumer.  We'd plan our trips into town to buy our 
supplies and stock up so we would reduce the number of 
trips we made.  We'd be more engaged in daily chores with 
less time to consume media and travel while being more 
content.  Not to mention the innovations and creative 
ways people can come up with to manage their resources.
    There's not only alcohol.  Cow manure is dried in one 
culture where cows provide the milk and the fuel for 
their fires throughout the winter.  There's wood.  Over 
50% of the World's population relies on wood heat.  
Coal, even though polluting, could probably be tamed by 
ingenuity of the people if they had a chance to use it.  
Our forefathers have used wind and water to perform 
chores that we so easily flip a switch on to do today.

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