If you care about food, electricity, and the cost of filling up your gas tank, you ought to consider yourself an “energy voter.”

Algenon Cash, chairman and small business ambassador for the N.C. Energy Forum, delivered that message today during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. In the video clip below, Cash explains why most people ought to pay attention to energy issues.

2:25 p.m. update: Click play below to watch the full 41:39 event.

You’ll find other John Locke Foundation video presentations here.