Reply #17: it *is* simply more fossil fuel profiteering [View All]

[Lexingtonian]

A colleague of my dad was an undersecretary in the Department of Energy during the first term of Dubya. Formally, his responsibilities were in nuclear cleanup and research stuff. (Which he didn't really give a shit about at that point, to be candid.)

He resigned after two or three years and now spends all his time on speculating in natural gas and political lobbying for LNG terminals. Word is that natural gas markets are less regulated and under less gov't control than all the petroleum, and electricity is too dangerous to touch since California/Enron, so the Dallas energy gouging crowd is concentrating all its efforts on cornering and controlling and destabilizing natural gas supplies and its distribution system.

It's just evil coercion and manipulations intent on theft. An inch short of highway robbery.