Of course the private sector has an axe to grind. I have never argued that point. What I've been trying to hammer through (as you well know) is that the pro-AGW political forces have at least as big an axe to grind. Not only are they playing for the money like the private sector, they're also playing for power over the individual, which the private sector typically isn't. Power is destructive in ways simple greed is not.

The worst excesses of capitalism are insignificant in comparison to the damage excessive state power has done over the past century. It's amazing that this glaringly obvious point doesn't sink in either.

This isn't about "admiring" one group or the other. It's about which group has historically proven to be the most dangerous. I believe I mentioned once that the heyday of "Gilded Age" capitalism would be considered a paradise by anyone who lived in any of the state-run "people's republics" of the past fifty years.

You read the "More on politics" links, didn't you?