"do we want raise our taxes to pay the Canadians for the energy they won't get to sell

Nope. It's their loss. They shudda done this in '55, or even '73, when nobody was paying attention. They snoozed, they can lose. I wouldn't mind raising taxes so we use less, tho.

His Hansen) proposal calls for a “simple, honest” carbon fee, collected from fossil-fuel companies upon the first sale at the mine, wellhead or port of entry.