Cap-and-trade disguises the cost of this lunacy. The cost will be embedded in everything we buy. A straight-up, flat-out carbon tax would at least expose Americans to the actual cost of this scam. This way, the cost of compliance will be indistinguishable from general inflation. As was said earlier, “hold onto your wallets.”
There’s nothing like putting policy poses ahead of scientific foundation to result in an horrific defeat at the polls about 1 to 5 years from now.