The green is not all that profitable to all, many countries regret going green and bankruptcies are happening, Spain a few months back had a huge loss with some green company. The cost to the consumer is far too high at the present time.
My thoughts on this... Exploit the hell out of our oil and gas industry, build pipelines to each coast and sell as much as possible. make it a law that the major oil companies use X amount of profits to invest in an alternative energy source where they will be share holders ( a few majors are already investing heavily into this as it is ). Once we get a feasible alternative energy source and the economy is ok then do a slow transition to cleaner sources. To bankrupt a country to go green makes no sense at all. Looks good on paper, too bad all the young " kids " want this to happen now.