The government does interfere with them, but to a much smaller extent than in other countries. Europe is famously protective of its food producers, Germany shut

The government does interfere with them, but to a much smaller extent than in other countries. Europe is famously protective of its food producers, Germany shut its nuclear power stations down. France's nuclear generation is a shining rare example of good use of state capacity, a kind of counterexample the shock of which demonstrates the truth of the generalization. There isn't a huge amount of government involvement in fuel in the US. Some bad ethanol requirements, some taxes, but still less bad than elsewhere. And fracking is legal where it matters, thank God.