This would serve
multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and
simultaneously depleting terror - exporting
countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us
in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.
For those people who would argue that our government would never engage
in a heavily compartmentalized top secret project taking place
simultaneously all across the
country spanning
multiple years, the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs beg to differ.