our idiotic government.

I highly suggest this film: American Experience: Earth Days

Did you know that the first hybrid car was developed in the 60s or 70s?
Did you know that the white house had solar power water heaters in 1979?
...They were taken down by Reagan in 1986.

There is no excuse that these technologies have not been made nation-wide policies.
The fact that hybrid cars and solar panels were developed before the cell phone and we have come so far with cell phones, but still hybrids and alternative energy systems are rarely seen tells me a lot.