You have to understand the world to answer that question. Energy is the food of nations and keeping them tied to oil gives you power over them. Why do you think we still use a 150 old technology of combustion engines whereas basically every other aspect of civilization has come so far? It's a choice, not a misfortune.
What's wrong with solar, wind and basically everything that would solve the problem? - Power. Humanity would cut the strings attached to it, nobody wants that.
> Why do you think we still use a 150 old technology of combustion engines whereas basically every other aspect of civilization has come so far?
Because with current technologies (this might change in the future) it is far simpler to store combustibles than energy in other forms (electric, kinetic (in form of fly wheel)).
Specifically for cars it is much faster to fill the tank with combustibles (petrol, diesel, natural gas, LPG) than to recharge the accumulator. Also specifically for electric cars the accumulator has a limited number of charge cycles. Since the accumulator is a (relatively) very expensive part of an electric car this can easily reduce the value of a used electric car by a lot.
The storage of electric energy is IMHO indeed the fundamental problem solar and wind has: While we can get (law(s) of large numbers) good large scale estimates how much energy we can harvest, it is not always there at the time that wee need it. So we have to find a way to store large amounts of it to be able to apply the law(s) of large numbers. This is where the problem lies.
Of course we can hope for large breaktroughs that will solve these problems, but I'm talking about current technology.
"What's wrong with solar, wind and basically everything that would solve the problem? - Power. Humanity would cut the strings attached to it, nobody wants that."
This is completely wrong and conspiratorial.
There is absolutely nothing anyone can do to 'stop' the proliferation of solar or wind technology - there are 165 nations on planet earth - almost all of which could stand to benefit from if those were real options.
Do you really think that Egyptians, Jordanians and Lebanese enjoy living in poverty as their 'rich' Saudi and Libyan friends enjoy Oil, and don't put up solar panels because of 'American political pressure' or something?
The reality is wind and solar are cost prohibitive - and in almost every case make no sense at all.
In some very specific scenarios, they make sense.
As grids, batteries, supporting technology become better - they've improved - but we're still a long, long way off from where they are rationally viable at any real price range. In fact, there is no horizon today for that to happen - we're still waiting for a breakthrough.
Will the US allow something like that happen? The future is developing towards hardware backdoors in all processors and this would make it really hard to implement such system. There is no way this is going to happen.