The Register-Guard says that the United States has bet its economic future on the ability of market forces to take care of energy supply problems. But the invisible hand of the market promises to slap Americans in the face before it puts cheap gas in their tanks. The United States' near-exclusive reliance on the free market to solve the world's energy problems threatens to leave the country unprotected against severe blows to its economy, security and way of life.

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