It's time for the red states to band together and start passing "Right to extract and use energy" laws. The laws can be passed "at the state level", but I would recommend that the states base them upon a mutually-agreed-upon framework (in the same way that building codes are framed, or the uniform commercial codes).
Such a law would guarantee to individuals, businesses and corporations:
- the right to extract raw energy products from the earth (such as petroleum, natural gas, coal, etc.)
- the right to process and refine such raw energy products
- the right for individuals and business to USE energy for normally-intended purposes, such as in motor vehicles, for heating, for industrial production
- the right to use refined energy products in industrial and agricultural production.
- the right of individuals to use refined energy products for normally-intended and established uses.
It's up to the states to get these laws into place, before the DC government tries to preemptively ban such energy extraction and usage.
Let the states define these as "rights".
Then before the DC government can take them away, we might be able to fight for them (and win) in the courts.
