The United States and Western European countries have proven that you can still use lots of hydrocarbons and still reduce air pollution substantially.
My ultra green progressive lib types pretend like there's no substantial environmental impact from the widespread deployment of inefficient so called "green energy" and that simply is not the case.
I don't know what the numbers are now, but several years ago, it took approximately 2 years for a large wind turbine to offset the consumption of hydrocarbons during the production of the wind turbine and that's 2 years with the wind blowing pretty much all the time.
Not saying we shouldn't be looking at "green" energy, but it's been oversimplified in some circles.
