If you've never watched the movie Who Killed The Electric Car?, find it. It paints a pretty good picture of who controls energy policies in the US, and how it is conducted.

Another example is the push for hydrogen vehicles instead of electric. Electric is far easier and cleaner, whereas hydrogren is more expensive and difficult, and may not exist as a usable technology for decades.

Basically, only technologies that exploit natural resources, with huge profits, are allowed to develop. Truly clean and low-resource technologies are merely viewed as threats to profit. These energy companies have demonstrated time and again that they are willing to destroy the planet's health for their profits. They are now transitioning from oil (as they must), but are seeking to do so in a manner fully consistent with their past behavior. They want the energy needs to be fed exclusively through them.

The world is being held hostage by these bullies. Technologically, we could have had solar, wind and other technologies in our hands long ago.