“Over Our Dead Bodies”: Backlash Builds Against $3T Clean Energy Push

That said from reading the first 2 paragraphs, it just seems that people are stuck in their ways, and more importantly, have attached the entire notion of green/clean energy sources to a political party, and due to the polarization of politics, just simply say "no" because their chosen party is against green/clean energy.

It's incredibly sad, depressing and just plain dumb.

I can relate to this - while my parents are very fiscally conservative, they are big time environmentalists too, so my sister and I got to drive a Toyota Prius. I grew up in a very conservative (and outrageously wealthy) suburb of NYC when it was cool to drive around in a big SUV (mid to late 2000's). The amount of verbal abuse I took for driving that Prius was extensive, from both classmates and random people on the road....despite gas being over $5 a gallon at the time. One would think people who are fiscally conservative would leap at the prospect of paying under $100 a month on gas, as opposed to paying more than that each week in gas, but, nope.

People got sucked into the green = democrat = EVIL COMMIES OH NO THEYRE GONNA TAKE MY MONEY AND MY GUNS AND MY TRUCK AND MY WAY OF LIFE mindset and just haven't grown up mentally. Thanks to extensive lobbying by automakers, oil companies, and other actors that stand to benefit from gas guzzling automobiles, that mentality hasn't changed.