I agree with you about the whole free market bit, about DC being sewer rats, and people looking out for each other... but rationing to "tighten the belt"? edit: I also disagree with wind and solar not being realistic sources of energy. The problem is in distribution, not production. We don't have a whole lot of main lines out to the middle of nowhere aka where we would put wind farms. I think we also need to recover from the stigma against nuclear energy. That is the answer. People ask for free energy, they get it, then they say "fuck that" because we're still learning about it. Nuclear is now a whole lot safer than it used to be