Conventional political wisdom has been "hide the carbon price" under cap-and-trade.  To keep the game alive, Waxman's opened the "free allowances" and "cheap offsets" windows (and has been forced to backslide on climate goals).  No surprise that lobbyists have been lining up for their slices of pie.  

In contrast, British Columbia's voters yesterday decisively re-elected Gordon Campbell who enacted North America's first revenue-neutral carbon tax.  See www.carbontax.org. 

Maybe it's time to re-think the conventional wisdom and send the dirty energy lobbyists home by enacting a revenue-neutral carbon tax that distributes the revenue to households.  The Citizens' Climate Lobby is asking for exactly that: http://citizensclimatelobby.org/