Please don’t lose sight of the fact that this is about control. It doesn’t matter if the fuel comes from worn out baseballs, porcupine needles, or a particle beam from the planet Zeephar, the fight is about who controls the money.
You’re right, it’s about control,
but I believe it’s more about the POWER than the money.
Granted, the two go hand in hand,
but I’d bet the house that if you gave these people the choice between limitless money in a free society and the power to control every person in a police state, they’d choose the latter.