I think you've hit the nail on the head here.
There are a lot of greenies out there who don't realize they are just dupes of the world wide socialist worker's party.
Me, I've been partial to solar power satellites as advocated by physicist Gerald O'Neill while he was alive. (Energy would be beamed to Earth from satellites solar collectors in high orbit). Research done by his Space Studies Institute proved it was economically feasible to build the satellites from materials catapulted from the moon using his mass driver.
Now that oil is $60 a barrel it is more than feasible. An international consortium could finance building them. (like the one that financed the building of the Alaskan oil pipeline.