Most of your anger about the high cost of gasoline is rather misplaced: It has absolutely nothing to do with measures taken (or considered) concerning global warming. It is a matter of supply & demand: Supply is not going to increase, and demand has been going way up, mostly because of the rise of the Chinese economy.
OK, there may be some speculation involved as well. But that’s still got nothing to do with the global warming issue.
If a carbon-dioxide tax is ever created, the likelihood is that you will hardly notice at the gas-pump. Remember a decade ago when they wanted to impose a 5-cent/gallon tax to encourage fuel economy? There was so much screaming, you would have thought the world was coming to an end. But if that in fact had been applied, maybe it would have sent the right signal to the American consumer, and we wouldn’t be as hung-out-to-dry as we are now, with millions of gas guzzlers, and gasoline price increases that make that 5-cent/gallon tax completely imperceptible.
