How is it that the US Energy Policy is a secret?

How is it that global energy corporations, participants like Enron, and an overseeing Cheney, can produce our policy in secret, and keep it secret from the population?

How could it be that in a democracy (even a weighted representative two-party democracy such as we have) the government can prohibit the citizens of the country from knowing what its own energy policy is?

How is it that more ordinary Americans don’t ask themselves this question? It leads to other questions…