There is no scarcity of energy, there is just a competition of business models. The amount of energy we could produce via solar thermal alone is entirely elastic to the demand at current prices, within several orders of magnitude. https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-power-is-now-the-cheapest-energy-in-the-world …
Same difference. The energy companies are not acting out of malice but out of self preservation, and responsibility to shareholder value.