Depressingly, the real answer is probably even worse. It’s not like there aren’t rich companies who won’t suffer from the upcoming power crunches and would writ

Depressingly, the real answer is probably even worse. It’s not like there aren’t rich companies who won’t suffer from the upcoming power crunches and would write big checks to keep them from happening. But that won’t work. No, the actual answer is that it’s pure ideology: this is about Owning the Libs, pure and simple, irrespective of the collateral damage to the economy. We’re currently being led by vengeance-minded morons who want to destroy anything that has even a tangential connection to liberal politics, and renewables are definitely on that list.