Your editorial is spot-on ( The Guardian view on the green transition: politicians should speed it up – and households too, 4 May ). Sadly many of the policies implemented by politicians are counterproductive, based on the fear of public backlash. Fossil fuel tax cuts encourage climate harm and will exacerbate the coming shortages. Nuclear power is a way to spend billions today that will have no impact for at least a decade, while readily available competitive solutions go begging. Fuel rationing and efforts to hasten the transition nudge us in the right direction, though they still lack a clear financial signal for the wider economy and households. As with most political solutions, there are rarely new ideas. During the 1970s fuel crisis, a British engineering professor at MIT, David Gordon Wilson , presented to the US Congress five times, proposing a predictable and rising carbon tax uniformly rebated to all citizens.…