Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet -

The singer and prophetess Bonnie Raitt spoke with the voice of truth when she declared: “Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet—nobody taxes the sun yet.” In this saying lies both warning and hope. For the world has long been bound in chains to kings, merchants, and empires who claimed dominion over fire, fuel, and the treasures of the earth. But the sun, eternal and unclaimed, pours its light freely upon the just and the unjust, upon the rich and the poor, a gift of the heavens that no tyrant forged and no conqueror owns.

The origin of this truth rests in the long story of human toil. Men have fought for wood, for coal, for oil, for rivers and lands, always dividing, hoarding, and taxing what they could seize. Wars were waged for black gold beneath the soil, empires rose on the back of steam and steel, and nations trembled for the sake of pipelines and mines. Yet above all this strife, the sun continued to shine, untouched by the greed of men, an untaxed abundance flowing from the sky. To point to it as the last unowned resource is to remind us of a freedom still waiting to be embraced.

Consider the story of India’s march toward solar energy. Once shackled to costly imports of oil and coal, its villages darkened by poverty, the nation turned its eyes upward. In places where no wires stretched, solar lamps began to glow, and farmers who once labored under diesel’s burden now harnessed light itself to irrigate their fields. No empire sold them the sun, no tax collector dimmed its rays. It was a glimpse of liberation, a modern echo of Raitt’s cry—that in the heavens burns a wealth beyond plunder.

The ancients too worshiped this truth in their own way. The Egyptians bowed to Ra, the Greeks honored Helios, the Aztecs raised temples to the blazing disc. They knew, even without science, that the sun was the source of life, the unquenchable fire from which grain grew, rivers sparkled, and men thrived. Today, as nations choke on smoke and waters grow poisoned, Raitt reminds us that the oldest of gods still offers his gift untaxed, awaiting only the wisdom of men to receive it.

Therefore, O seekers of the future, let not greed claim the light that belongs to all. Do not wait until rulers place chains upon the sky, until the free fire of heaven is measured and sold. Seize the truth now: the sun is the inheritance of every soul, the eternal wellspring of life, the power that none can own and yet all may share. To embrace it is not only to find energy, but to honor freedom itself.