Better for the politics thread, but El Barto has written about this for years: it's not what's best for people, it's what gets votes. That might keep him in office.
Remember, Florida is in the top ten for sunlight potential, and yet the state has decreed that if you are a residential solar user, you can't contribute your excess back to the grid. From a renewable energy standpoint, it's about as inefficient a policy as you can get.