I’d wager that few politicians, even Obama, want “energy prices to necessarily skyrocked” at this point. People are being eaten alive by high prices. They know their political futures depend on keeping energy prices reasonable.
Disagree entirely.
The entire premise of the left is to aggregate power in the name of “solving” crises.
Energy crisis, AIDS crisis, Social Security crisis, health care crisis, global warming crisis.
All they need first is to create a good crisis.