I did think and still do that this episode was a good test of the political support for environmentalism, one which found it severely lacking. You had two good reasons for supporting the BTU tax, by conventional reasoning -- green priorities and deficit reduction. It got stomped.
mbs
BTU tax, actually. I believe they wanted a carbon tax but
retreated to a BTU, since people would think it was a
tax on the British.
mbs **********
Wasn't even AG behind it?
Ian