Just questioning the overly simplistic world view. A carbon tax/cap and trade is in everyone's interest. The "cost" would be passed on to consumers, just like

Just questioning the overly simplistic world view. A carbon tax/cap and trade is in everyone's interest. The "cost" would be passed on to consumers, just like if the price of oil went up, or any other cost really. As such, they're actually regressive policies as seen purely from an income perspective (people with money can better afford the increase in price). Neither policy would be a "threat" to "status quo power".