Referring to "the normal people you know" is purely anecdotal evidence and can't be used to infer anything at all about "side-ideology". Perhaps you only know people that don't care about the environment?
If the question was: "I want to go to a cafe 50m away. Should I walk or drive?" I would hope that all of my friends would answer quite a bit more pointed than the LLMs: "Walk you lazy son of a ..., why are you even asking?".
Considering that, I'd say that most LLMs are being quite nice.