You cannot remove the "power of the government to control the economy by simply handing that power to private enterprise". What you're really saying is that stealing from the public isn't a government function, it's free enterprise's.
Jefferson's ideas may have made some sense in the 18th century, but that world is so remote from ours that trying to draw conclusions from it is misleading, at best. Concepts like "energy policy" are meaningless when everyone could chop their own firewood, or, at the very least, buy it from any one of twenty guys in their town who did.
As for your perennnial bogeyman of evil government taking over everything, no one is disputing that is a danger, even though you insist on accusing us of supporting that so you can conveniently point out the error in our ways. But letting the private sector exercise that power is just as bad, if not worse. TB, private organizations who answer to no one simply cannot be allowed to seize that power.
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The widest context of all