If government keeps pursuing its carbon policy it could backfire. That is because sooner or later an awkward little item will emerge. If it gets publicized it will embarrass the carbon sleuths.

Now you know carbon dioxide has become a villain. The EPA has classified it as poisonous. This is clearly a political move.

The EPA was ordered to do this for a simple reason. Governments want to tax firms that emit carbon dioxide. They want to tax all carbon-based fuels. And all that.

Governments simply want to collect more money. They are desperate for money. Their desperation comes from their spending, of course.

They are like addicts who run short of booze or drugs. In desperation they will say and do ridiculous things. Worrying about carbon dioxide falls into the classification of desperate.

But Tom, Tom, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas! Evil! Greenhouse gasses are responsible for global warming and, omigod, climate change!

That we even have global warming is debatable, of course. Thermometers around the world have not co-operated for over a decade.

What is more awkward is this:  You have read and heard the scare stories about the greenhouse gasses. Tell me, what proportion of the entire atmosphere is composed of what the scare monkeys call greenhouse gasses?  Take a stab.