Yes, affordable energy is a blessing for almost everyone—aside from the professional parasites who live off the green scam, but we can safely disregard their wailing. Cheap energy is undeniably good, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking it will magically erase the consequences of the economic poison we’ve been force-fed for half a century.
For decades, the world gorged itself on fantasy economics—relentless money printing dressed up as “policy,” accounting trickery varnished into respectability, and the quiet corruption of public bookkeeping standards to hide structural decay. Layer onto that the corporatification and financialisation of everything, which has strangled entrepreneurial lifeblood and hollowed out the small and mid-sized businesses that once formed the spine of real economies. In their place stand a handful of monstrous conglomerates—immune to competition, allergic to innovation, and perfectly designed to prevent genuine recovery.
This is not the sort of framework from which economic renaissance springs. We’re not heading into a boom; we’re drifting into a prolonged stagnation—years, possibly decades of it. And here’s the bitter truth: the timeline for fixing a problem tends to mirror the timeline it took to create it.My father once told me that solutions take as long to bake as the rot took to spread. And we haven’t even started baking. We haven’t even admitted, collectively, that the house is on fire. Cheap energy is a relief, not a cure. The real illness is still metastasizing.
https://empoweringamerica.org/when-energy-is-done-right-a-rising-tide-will-lift-all-boats/