But energy is not scarce. It falls on the ground and is blown over the surface of the planet, every day.

This is not energy scarcity, it's stupidity abundance.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/oil-crisis-exactly-net-zero-160302195.html

The actual article is even more unhinged than the headline suggests.

The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants

The net zero fanatics have been loudly complaining about how the soaring cost of fuel in the wake of the Iran war is hitting us all, gleeful for the chance...

Yahoo News UK

@isotopp It is... but like, while this is based in the UK and I am in the US, it hasn't not occured to me that this would force us to make changes that get us away from our oil overuse. Like that is a good thing that could come of this. It's a crisis in a very specific way that might bring on one very helpful change.

It's just that the bad here far outweighs the good and I would prefer not to have the bad.