I’ve been busy filing comments this afternoon on the EPA’s proposed finding that carbon dioxide poses a threat to human health and the environment. As I’ve said: Try living without it, then talk to me.

I’ll have more soon on CBO’s craven pandering to Congress, having gotten the message when, e.g., Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) dismissed their unique advisory role. He who pays the piper calls the tune and all that — and soon enough, CBO fell in line with some fairly absurd claims about how saddling our economy with an energy-rationing scheme and the biggest tax increase in history will . . . why, it won’t hurt at all!

What makes that even more strange is that, as candidate Obama admitted and, e.g., Vattenfall CEO Lars Joseffson whispered to the Washington Post, raising the price of energy is “the intent of the whole exercise” of cap-and-trade. As Joseffson asked: If you don’t do that, what’s the point?

None. They’re not telling you the truth. Cap-and-trade was chosen simply as the way to tax your energy without members of Congress going on the hook for a tough vote. They had to buy industry cover. They must all be counting on the undying trust the public has in big business, Washington, and policymakers of late.

But, in response to today’s big news of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., San Francisco) scheduling floor time to — she hopes — ram through this wretched mess drafted by a Beverly Hills Congressman with help from a Massachusetts one, I see that Americans for Prosperity’s has been the most recent one to nail the sellout. It’s been a fire sale, and you’ve been paying. You just don’t know it yet, because you weren’t at the table.

Now, if this passes the EPA effort will be for naught (the EPA is only being used as a threat to get industry to cave — at least, those who haven’t been bought off with a hike in your energy prices). So, don’t make my comments fall on deaf ears. Let’s make the administration work for this one. See if you can let your suburban and rural representatives know how you feel about their push to raise your energy prices. Call ‘em. Maybe ask someone to get back to you with what the temperature will be after this tax increase.