It's sort of weird to live in the time line where the Head Honcho Big Cheese both starts a war for no real reason with no real goals that makes fossil fuels expensive AND has a personal vendetta against wind farms that makes renewable energy impossible to build.

And on top of that a third of the country thinks he's the best President America has ever had!

[Edit: And of course the newest over-hyped technology is super-extremely-power-hungry!]