Maybe they could set up small territories, districts if you will...the coastal elites could plan to extract a lucky few to participate in some sort of festivities or games...what fun!!
A few years back, there was a show called "Revolution", in which programmable nanites, weaponized, and present in the atmosphere and environment everywhere, shut down all electrical energy world wide.
And of course, select elites had the keys to turn them on and off and could run
their computers, vehicles, and infrastructure. Oh, and of course, the first thing they did was ban everyones guns.
It occurs to me that pricing people out of energy is quite the same, when the rubber meets the road, as shutting it down.
This wont end well.