Any honest economist will tell you the Lieberman-Warner carbon cap bill being debated in the Senate this week is a massive energy tax that every government agency that has studied the issue says will drive up the cost of energy — hurting American consumers who already are feeling the pain of $4 a gallon gasoline. And any honest scientist will tell you that unless India and China vastly cut back on their own carbon emissions, Lieberman-Warner will do nothing to slow global warming. So how do liberals defend this all-pain-and-no-gain …
