Both Parties Promote Energy Socialism While controversy and discord between the two major political parties about energy policy play out in the media, in reality they do not disagree at the level of principle. The current energy debate is a skirmish between those who advocate energy socialism without drilling (or with some drilling if needed as a political bargaining chip) and those who advocate energy socialism with drilling. Neither major presidential candidate advocates a free market in energy. Ideologically there is no difference between the Democrat and Republican approaches. They both propose to use the powers of the federal government to move energy production and consumption in the direction that central planners deem appropriate. The overarching goals of both the McCain and Obama plans are to fight global warming and to prevent Americans from freely purchasing oil on international markets, aka energy independence. Clearly the Republicans have abandoned all conservative principles when it comes to this issue....