Undermining Energy Production

An Economic and Philosophic Analysis of the State of Energy Production

This paper shows that the world faces an energy crisis but that the crisis is not due to the depletion of fossil fuels. It is a man-made crisis. The crisis is being caused by environmentalist and other statist policies around the globe. The paper shows that the solution to our energy problems is the abolition of government controls restricting our ability to gain access to energy products. It states that the motivation for the restrictive policies stems from the morality of self-sacrifice, while the morality of rational self-interest provides the basis for abolishing the controls.

This paper shows that the world faces an energy crisis but that the crisis is not due to the depletion of fossil fuels. It is a man-made crisis. The crisis is being caused by environmentalist and other statist policies around the globe. The paper shows that the solution to our energy problems is the abolition of government controls restricting our ability to gain access to energy products. It states that the motivation for the restrictive policies stems from the morality of self-sacrifice, while the morality of rational self-interest provides the basis for abolishing the controls.

Find the article online at ProQuest.

To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.

Mercatus AI Assistant
Ask questions about this research.
GPT Logo
Mercatus AI Research Assistant
Ask questions about this research. Mercatus Chatbot AI More Details
Suggested Prompts:
Ask us anything. We use OpenAI's ChatGPT 4o base model to answer any question about Mercatus research.