The simplest, most comprehensive, least intrusive, and most elegant solution to climate change is a carbon tax. By all accounts, Biden is not giving one serious consideration. Why?
Because the Bidenistas know what happened in France. It’s easy to imagine massive demonstrations and civil disobedience, abetted by the GOP, in response to a new tax, even if it is accompanied by a rebate. The disproportionate impacts on rural areas would intensify the culture war. The politics just don’t work, and for Biden, politics take precedence over policy.
If we do ever have a carbon tax, it will be initiated by the right, and justified with corresponding regressive income tax cuts. The PBPs are the only ones who can make it happen–an environmental Nixon goes to China.