I think the issue is that most proposals aren't about spending money on climate change. They are more of designed to regulate and penalize those that don't 'go green'.
That is a very bad difference, I think. Rather than invest in technology that can improve life, they are leveraging political power to tax and damage businesses. You cannot tax and regulate your way to innovation.
I agree with Highway that we need to invest money in NEW technologies rather than attack old businesses. Efficiency, and better power production is something that all energy companies can agree on. However, when they are worried that the government will tax them if their solution isn't 'green', then capital expenditures may not go where they're most needed.
Let's invest in nuclear, fission, and other promising technologies. We can have clean, efficient energy. We just have to do it in the name of efficiency and not in the name of a particular quasi-religious movement.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
