I don’t think pointing out the obvious

The climate bill passed by the House, Buffett insists, is a “huge tax — and there’s no sense calling it anything else.” What’s more, he says, the measure would mean “very poor people are going to pay a lot more money for their electricity.”

should be a reason for being labeled a killer.

I’d like to hear how cap and trade will significantly lower carbon emissions - note that this is different from carbon offsets and ‘spurring innovation’. The last large climate change legislation passed - to subsidize ethanol production - has recently been evaluated as a poor choice that may have backfired in terms of total emissions (Science magazine letters to the editor).