For any NEW technology there is ALWAYS controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I THINK that's just the price of being FIRST sometimes.
I now realise how LIBERATING all-inclusive resorts are. No carrying huge handbags ANYWHERE. No having to worry about purses being pinched. No totting up the price in your HEAD and fretting that you've SPENT too much.
In any crass POLITICAL calculation, drilling for OIL will always win more votes than putting a PRICE on carbon. But if I RECALL what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.