The evironmental wackos caused most of the problems
You can't drill here, no drilling there, no refineries, the rich Kennedys do not want wind terbines to corrupt their beach front view, Why should congress give a hoot, hell we pay for their fuel and everything else while they expect us to bend over and accept their it will be 10-20 years before any of these alternative energy get on line...so lets do nothing. same ole Bs that the idiots say today is what they said, 30 years ago.
It's not only the politicians, but the green party, Global warming is a farce, but is being used to fatten the bank accounts of those who own companies that deal with carbon footprints offsets ( Al Gore ) 100 million dollar wind fall scam.