it's also very much at the state level. The mandates imposed on rural electric Co-ops in Colorado to move away from fossil fuels is the main reason 10 counties are looking to secede from the state

On a recent Stossel show about Are We Rome, he had an expert talking about oil companies and how people say (I'm paraphrasing here), 'gas prices are going up, must be those greedy oil companies', but you never hear 'gas prices are coming down, the oil companies must be less greedy'. Since this isn't a likely scenario it must be something other than simply greedy oil companies huh, like governments and agendas.