What you're detailing is the complete overhaul of our entire energy infrastructure. Of course there will be resistance to that. Such large, global changes have to happen slowly and they almost never happen by government fiat. That's the mistake we're making, this thinking that we can legislate a new energy source. We can't. As it is solar and wind suck ass as energy producers. I'm talking BTU output. They can't compete against fossil fuels in that regard, they simply can't.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the oil companies
per se, I'm just explaining how it is pure and simple. As it is I see zip wrong with using natural gas to power things and for that matter I know that coal processing and burning has gotten light years better than it once was. We're not choking out tons of mercury and other noxious substances that we once were with coal as a power plant energy source. The problem is that the enviro-whackos are too limited in their thinking and they want to legislate ourselves out of existence. They don't give a shit about reality and the fact that coal can crank out the BTU's in much higher numbers and more efficiently than windmills or solar panels can. Will that change? Will solar and wind get so good that they are cost effective? Meh, I doubt it.
Personally I would like to see more done in the way of "artificially" producing natural gas. You can't tell me that we can't "compost" agricultural waste with some super gas producing bacteria and make tons of that shit ourselves. And as for Global Warming, I don't give a shit. Let this mutha burn! I'm sick of the cold. I want it as hot as possible. Mankind is an adaptable species so we'll get by just fine if the oceans rise (they won't). And if the midwest turns into a desert then great! I'll grow some freakin' cacti! Let Canada and Greenland produce our wheat and shit like that.
Now mind you, this could just be the shiraz I had with dinner talking, so think about what I've said because God knows I haven't.