I agree with everything you say, however cap and trade is not working as designed. Instead, we have gotten a system of questionable carbon offsets where neithe

I agree with everything you say, however cap and trade is not working as designed. Instead, we have gotten a system of questionable carbon offsets where neither the buyer nor the seller is interested in investigating the quality of the product closely, nor are the regulators. The money is moving without achieving the goal of reducing global warming. Some of these policies have been in place for 20 years, and has hardly gotten any movement of the needle. ESG investing has done more, for crying out loud. We need to be acting like this is an emergency, because it is, and not rely on the market to produce a quality offset where no one cares about the quality. Tax emissions over the cap to pay for the externalities. Put a hard cap, like we do on vehicles, and the market will adjust. Stop tax benefits to oil production -- I know we still need petrochemicals for plastics, but not this much.