This recent crisis has unleashed a weird strain of anti-capitalist crony-capitalism.
People angry that "their" energy is being sold to "other people" so we should do X, where X obviously makes them poorer, but "sell X to other people at a profit and redistribute the profits to the whole nation making everyone richer" is simply considered iconcievable because it would affect the concentrated profits of crony capitalists and generally make people aware that they have democratic power to do things like that.
This recent crisis has unleashed a weird strain of anti-capitalist crony-capitalism.
People angry that "their" energy is being sold to "other people" so we should do X, where X obviously makes them poorer, but "sell X to other people at a profit and redistribute the profits to the whole nation making everyone richer" is simply considered iconcievable because it would affect the concentrated profits of crony capitalists and generally make people aware that they have democratic power to do things like that.
Same deal as with carbon taxes.