Excellent.
Things these "anti-green energy," pro-coal," whatever people need to come to an understanding over is that scientific progress on new forms of energy will be made regardless of whether the United States leads the charge or not. Science doesn't wait for the United States.
Do they want America to be followers or do they want America to be leaders?
Personally, I'd rather have the latter, on as many future fronts as possible. Conservatives are all too happy at willfully letting the United States lag behind in important scientific and social channels while the rest of the world simply moves on.