The ‘why’ is very simple. These types do not want additional energy of any type. Their solution is to ‘conserve, conserve, conserve’. They want higher energy costs to achieve their solution.
But nobody asks them whom they’re conserving it for. The only alternative to supply demand is for other countries NOT to conserve, then we have to import, which is expensive, and then use expensive treatments to make it blend enough to burn right because not all natural gas is the same: LB (imported gas) tends to be lighter and not as heat producing as natural gas found under the US.