Liberals and Conservatives agree on a carbon tax...

From the Conservative Party website, George Osborne, Monday November 27, 2006 in a speech to the CBI conference in London: "We want to shift the tax burden away from income and investment and onto pollution. Pay as you burn, not pay as you earn."

From Liberal MP Garth Turner's blog, May 19, 2008: "The idea is to shift taxes, not raise them...Tax what you burn, not what you earn."

The only problem is that Mr. Osborne is Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and a member of the British Conservative Party.