"When solar panels become cheap enough to show up in suburbs on a routine basis, they won't like those, either."
"They" being the one or two loons? Yeah you are probably right. But 99.9999 percent of the environmental movement will be celebrating.
Consider what it would do to our energy independence if every home and building in America had solar panels on the roofs. Now consider what that would do to the profits of the oil/gas/coal companies. Makes one wonder who these "loons" really are.
Check this out!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.html
Spray this stuff on the roofs of homes and watch those foreign energy imports drop!