Officials in captured governments obey moneyed interests as much as they can. The alternative lens to the Prohibition era was Big Oil wanting to squeeze out competition making small batches of ethanol for fuel (mainly farms using crop waste). The Rockefellers used a religious front organization to get Prohibition legislation passed. This is the repeating pattern of decentralized production and innovative new solutions being crushed. Fits in with food production, healthcare, education, and other categories.

The situation of using coal for electricity production is being phased out in the West while China aggressively builds more coal plants, and clean burning natural gas is under attack, tells us "government intentions" are more about getting everyone dependent on a centralized electrical grid for all of our energy needs. This would be for control, not the environment. Wind and solar aren't sustainable and depend on a big fossil fuel platform.