The free market has futures and other derivatives markets to help anticipate supply and price volatility. All things considered, if it really makes more economic sense for Americans to begin a rapid shift away from gasoline-powered vehicles, then market forces will produce that result. If one of the “distortions” in this framework is massive U.S. military expenditures, then the most obvious solution is to cut those expenditures, rather than give the feds even more money and power to intervene in the energy sector.
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