The Great Energy Scam
Thanks to our private property rights in this country, there is an economic incentive to extract minerals to produce vital energy. The oil that is extracted powers our lives. We take energy for granted, but over 3.5 billion people only have intermittent electricity enough to power a refrigerator. We have enough known oil and gas energy reserves to power our civilization for the next thousand years. And it does produce so many more products than just electricity or gasoline for our cars.