@petergleick The fossil fuel industry is terrified that, with the right incentives, the transition to renewables and away from petrol will be actually be pretty cheap (especially accounting for health externalities). So they are trying very hard to scare people away from trying at all, even objecting to fairly modest changes that make economic sense regardless of global warming costs.

As with many programs they oppose, they're scared that people will actually like the result if they try it.