Brokaw's questions were quite a powerful sleep aid, try watching it if you are troubled by insomnia.  Zzzz.  Here's the transcript, more informative, but still Brokawed up.  Check out the Gristmill discussion on it.

Did Brokaw ask about the best part of Gore's plan?  The idea to tax carbon and reduce payroll taxes by that same total taken in by the carbon tax?  Well, of course he didn't.

It prices carbon without raising taxes or cap and trade hedge fund bubble gumming up the works.

That is a much more effective stimulus for the economy than these ocasional stimulus checks to pay for higher energy prices.

The tax cut would increase as carbon taxes increase.  Conserving fuel and energy would leave taxpayers with big savings via the payroll tax cut, combined with saving money not paying for carbon intensive energy.

Despite his bone headed touting of 'clean' coal CCS, this tax plan makes up for this and other obvious foot in mouth episodes.
 

A subsidy diversion from fossil fuel industries directly to solar panel and wind and farm biogas investors of 5 to 10 cents per kwh would be further incentive to reduce carbon emitting energy consumption.

Please add this Al!   Fat chance eyyh, hehey.