The People's Power

Have you ever wondered why we haven't been able to address the problems of the energy needs we face for the near future? It's because of centralized corporate monopolies that have control over our energy. Big oil, the so-called "public utilities", the phone and Internet companies are all private profit makers who want to keep their power in the short term, even if it means their eventual downfall when society crashes.

You see, if we were to have individual solar electric panels on most of our homes and businesses, along with local wind farms, we could provide all the power we need. Coal and oil products wouldn't be needed to produce power and that would drastically reduce pollution and greenhouse gasses. Of course, the manufacturers of solar and wind equipment would earn one-time windfall profits, but after that they wouldn't control energy production. It would be the people's energy.

Corporate greed and political power are the worst culprits preventing us from having a clean environment and plentiful energy. Their minority private interests cannot serve society. They want control of energy production as a centralized model, and we helpless slave-consumers who have no control over our basic needs. It's time that necessary public utilities be truly public.