Anger about global warming, solar power and electric cars

I must admit that I am frequently surprised at how angry people get about global warming and reasonable solutions like solar power and electric cars. Right now many Republicans in Congress seem willing to shut down the U.S. goverment for declaring that CO2 is causing global warming. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that these deniers are in the the pay (e.g. the oil-rich Koch Industries funding of the Tea Party) or at least the ideological sway of the oil companies. As Paul Krugman recently wrote, paraphrasing Upton Sinclair, "it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." So for all of the sheiks and Big Oil executives, it's clear that nothing we say will convince them. But for everyone else who stands to gain in cash saved, cleaner air, less global warming, less military spending, no oil spills, preservation of Alaska's wilderness, etc---solar power and electric cars are a win-win-win....(right now we are at 220 miles per gallon on our Volt--2,150 miles, 9.8 gallons)