What needs to happen is that governments stop subsidizing alternative energy based on the excuse around so called global warming then we will see exactly who has been ripping off the system.
Yeah, riiigght, here's just one
documented energy subsidy comparison for a fairly recent seven year period. There are many others, but I only have so much time for 'enlightening' self-shielded 'deniers':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_United_States#HistoryThe federal government provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewables in the 2002–2008 period. Subsidies to fossil fuels totaled approximately $72 billion over the study period, representing a direct cost to taxpayers. Subsidies for renewable fuels, totaled $29 billion over the same period.[21]
Reference # 21(above) has workable links to download the whole document (a pdf doc linked from the refs section of the Wiki link given): Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002–2008, Environmental Law Institute Archived January 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
A direct refutation of your unsourced allegation of an "alternative energy" ripoff. Most of us know who's doing, and been doing, those ripoffs.
I've also seen reputable sources that place the total US Government subsidies (read: taxpayer money) to the fossil fuel industry, since the 1900's, the last 110 years, at many Trillions of dollars.
It's not called "Big Oil" for nothing, if you got Trillions in subsidies you'd be "Big Matt".
So in just that short period of that report, ~7 years, probably the peak 'alternative' timeframe too,
"renewable fuels" got only 40% of the government subsidies to "fossil fuels" (compare those 110 years+ for fossil to the relatively short time for alternatives too, maybe twenty years?).
And remember, the nuclear power industry has also received Trillions of dollars of US government subsidies during it's existence.
These are also just direct subsidies, there are and have been many indirect ones too.
It's gonna take a long long time for the measly "alternative energy" subsidies/credits to equal that kind of government largess to the 'oilpatch welfare queens'.