Respectfully, what may seem "obvious" to you, is not "obvious" to others. Of course you should voice your feelings. All opinions are welcome here. Just leave the politics out of it. There are many, many internet forums where political discussion is welcome, thankfully, this is not one of them.

Carbon emissions regulation, in some form or another is coming. Period. The question is how are we as an industry going to deal with it? Not only on a national level, but an international level. Either we let it roll over us like a steam roller or we act in a proactive way, helping to shape the change and the policy that is about to act upon us. I suggest the latter as I am sure you would agree.

As a military person yourself, I leave you with the following quotation:

"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." - General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army