That's why I think the simple subsidy plan of 10 cents per kwh for renewables and 5 cents per kwh for conservation is the best.

It is easy to explain to politicians and the voters.  Voters will get checks.  Hedge fund traders will not be involved.

Can the opposition of lobbyists be overcome though?  We need our own lobby for this, a mega lobby consisting of all the other green and real USA job related lobbies.  

Unions, groups like NRDC, and other eco groups need to be convinced by people like Gore and Lester Brown and some of the grist writers of influence, like Romm and others.  Maybe an aticle series started off by a famous guest writer like Lovins?

And Brown and maybe even Gore continuing as the bandwagon rolls. A mega green lobby of lobbies to push this one very simple idea:

10 cents per kwh, and 5 cents, checks directly to homeowners.  The whole program payed for by stopping 50 billion per year in subsidies to big oil, coal, nuclear, and agribizzz.

Forget political will on raising taxes with a carbon tax or capping and trading or auctioning or rebating.  It's all too complex to explain and problematic with hedge funds getting their filthy fingers in the pie.

But we have to fight lobbying for these other plans with a mega green lobby.  Junketing congress around to view the green solutions, all that stuff.  Congress needs photo ops (for campaigning)to show the votwers back home they are doing something, and legislation to back those photo ops up.