Is it a surprise to anyone that the coal-and-gas empire commanded by the noxious Koch brothers is currently waging war on the renewables industry? For example, just recently the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), bunk-buddies of the Koch boys, steamrolled legislation through the Oklahoma legislature that slaps a big fat tax on anyone erecting new solar panels or wind turbines.
One gets the feeling that if ALEC or the Koch brothers had existed during man's earliest days they would have slapped a tax on cutting trees as they couldn't make their usurious nut on fire alone.