As General Giap once told Henry Kissinger, "That may very well be true, but it is irrelevant".

Energy consumption is an addiction. People don't stop using junk just because they learn it is not good for them. Any pusher can tell you that. Addicts are afraid to admit it to themselves.

"We don't put a gun to their head and make them do anything. We are only giving people what they want."

We all need energy, just like junkies need their fix, but using too much is toxic AND expensive. And I am VERY skeptical about conservation advice from those who sell the poison. They have everything to gain by "managing" the price and the demand to maximize the profit until the commodity runs out. Just because they haven't figured out how to do this perfectly yet doesn't mean they have no incentive to keep trying. And they have nothing to gain by having their customers learn the commodity will run out in some indefinite future.

They teach courses in college on how to do that, it's called "marketing", and they have nothing to do with free markets, except maybe how to pervert them.

I'm not asking you to accept my position TB, I'm just asking you to recognize it is not solely based on the media feeding me lies that I am too stupid to see through. I am capable of independent thought, and my Mom even claimed I was fairly bright.