For-profit power companies, deeply subsidized oil and natural gas interests, the mining industry, and even the railroads all have vested interests in keeping America dependent upon fossil fuels. These are big, unwieldy corporate machines. They do change with time, but it is a glacial kind of change characterized by recalcitrance and torpor. Nor should we be surprised that these behemoths of old power are unwilling to embrace a transformation that will quite likely put them out of business.
