If we were to discover an immense reserve of conventional petroleum in the continental United States these same people would be out banging their drum about the many reasons we must not use it. The one thing they can not say is their real reason for their opposition to our use of our resources...their goal is to further deindustrialize the nation in the name of their sustainable no-growth religion.
The energy policy of the Left is no energy. They have even gone to court to stop construction of a solar field in the Mojave Desert, and of course we have the no windmills off the coast of Nantucket thing.