Power & Market
Author:
Mike Holly
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US policymakers are spurning free competitive markets for government-created energy monopolies and oligopolies, and the risks of economic and environmental crises, and even war. Monopolies Favored Over Competition US politicians favor the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting use , compared to 13 percent from coal, the next highest source. US energy policies favor the use of oil and natural gas for all three major energy