Reply #2: That might not be the case

[Dogmudgeon]

And it has nothing to do with the "flavor" of energy.

I would think that in an economy crashing due to energy issues, that energy might be one of the few advisable investments left, whether it's for building a nuclear reactor, a wind farm, or getting the neighbors together to craft-produce a few kiloliters of biodiesel.

I may have overlooked something here. In an end-of-civilization scenario, of course, there are no public investments worth making. But short of that, I would expect energy, food, and "defense" (cops, soldiers, prisons, and guns) to be holdouts. And possibly some rudimentary medical system.

Does this make sense?

--p!