It’s not about “green” anyway, it’s about “red”.
They, the elitist ruling class, don’t want the hoi-polloi using energy and living a lifestyle close to that which the ruling class lives.
Please don’t lose sight of the fact that this is about control. It doesn’t matter if the fuel comes from worn out baseballs, porcupine needles, or a particle beam from the planet Zeephar, the fight is about who controls the money.
The communists did not just go away with the fall of the Soviet Union. They couldn’t beat us economically or by force without destroying the world. Now they are the new environmentalists who still hope to do us in - this time by forcing us to commit national suicide - and doing so while saying it’s for our own good.
Everything they do - everything - is to our detriment for the sole purpose of taking us down.
It's mostly the hoi-polloi wanting to keep the other hoi-polloi from getting ahead. Envy is most violent towards people of the same demographic.