From the Wall Street Journal, via OpenLeft and Sirota:
The chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. for the first time called on Congress to enact a tax on greenhouse-gas emissions in order to fight global warming...
The policy he is advocating is often called a carbon tax because it would be imposed on emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common man-made greenhouse gas. By backing it, Mr. Tillerson has become an unlikely member of a club that includes former Vice President Al Gore, consumer advocate Ralph Nader and President-elect Barack Obama's designated head of the National Economic Council, Larry Summers.
As David Sirota points out, this makes Tillerson's position on global warming more progressive than that of Congressional Democrats, who are in favor of the so-called "cap and trade" proposals that would create a market for buying and selling carbon pollution (that proposal is supported by all the other big oil companies).
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