Originally Posted by
Mesabah
No, corruption.
If energy rationing is the goal, and corruption is the reason, then some questions:
1. Energy rationing is the goal of whom?
2. What would be the premise be based upon such that there would be rationing? (in other words, what would the justification be? how will it be sold to all the rest of us unenlightened sheep?)
3. Who is, or who are, the corrupt actor/actors? Would it be singular people, or would it involve organized entities?
4. Is the coming corruption vanilla "line my pockets for wealth and power" corruption or is it a grand over arching world wide conspiracy_ to remake mankind in a millennial historic sense?
5. Are there any scenarios where a controlling power could ration energy availability that is not due to corruption? Was gas rationing during WW2 in the USA, Great Britain and elsewhere only due to corruption? Or does the possibility exist that average decent people devised policies so as to manage a crisis in a manner that caused as little suffering as humanly possible?