"Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one" Rep John Dingell (D-Michigan)

I have. The only want to reduce CO2 is to get people to stop using energy. The government needs to artificially raise the price of energy in order to push down demand. Call it a tax or something that acts like a tax but doesn't sound like a tax. It's still a tax.