It seems to me a bit like buying indulgences from the ancient church. … I can waste all the energy I want and then justify it by writing a check.

— Mike Huckabee, 2007

THE TROUBLE WITH CARBON taxes is you can’t put your finger on them. Where’s the beef? The climate is changing. The terrorist are coming. We’ve got to do something now. Grow more corn. Make hydrogen. Build nuclear reactors. Stop coal plants. Cap greenhouse gasses. Put solar panels on your roof. Invent fusion reactors, Zero Emission Vehicles, nanotech this, and biotech that.