If we want to have a world where the above picture works we have to ensure that those who produce the 2nd picture are motivated for its growth. For if those fossil fuel energy titans had an incentive (not disincentive) to make us “more green” then we would have already been there. The incentive is simple to let those in the fossil fuel industry keep all profits (no taxes) that they might make in a more “greener solution”. As a matter of fact allow them to divert a portion of the profits they have reaped in oil to be diverted away from the federal government pockets to a greener future as a whole. Government can’t create a solution yet it can use the tax code for those with the means, talent, and motivation to do so instead.