"by sacrificing the economic opportunity that could help them on the alter of environmentalism"
Not really; it is more like big business sacrificing the economic opportunity that could help them on the alter of "It's bad for business".
What d I mean? Well, as far back as I can remember, oil and auto have fought anything which came along. The end result is that our cars are so polluting that we can only sell them here,and maybe Canada. And, in a few years, not even in Cal, and Ma and a few others who have piggybacked on our standards. Lost a lot of jobs that way.
When Reagan took Carter's solar panels off the WH and allowed his tax credits for alt en to expire, what happened? Alt en basically died here. But elsewhere? My solar panels are from Japan, the mounts from SK , my inverter from Germany. Wire and 4x4 and the disconnects are the only "born in the USA" components. Everybody buys German and Danish windmills, Japanese panels, whatever. We have no manufacturers, no infrastructure (silicon manufacturers; it's in short supply now).
We have nothing. Except a bill for imported oil. We blew it behind the mantra "It would be bad for business". Well, yeah...GM and Ford are going belly up, Chrysler is German, American Motors isn't. They were right; bad for business. And so a lot of jobs aren't here.
I don't think we are even trying to sell pollution control equipment to China. And cuz the rest of the world didn't think Kyoto was bad for business, while we did, we won't be able to sell them much of anything in the way of durable goods. Including aeroplanes.
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