Big Oil is the only one to effectively set up a carbon tax

I have been quite active in reading the advancement on carbon dioxide management and plans to emission reduction. To resume we can compare it to a tide, moving back and forth but always staying at the shore; in a word: status quo!
Now my analysis of that never-ending story of "let us go forward!" and then "errr na, finally we keep on hiding" was that governments were either too short-term focused or too powerless to move forward and that the environment issues would be embraced by the industries as a survival reflex from an observation that in the long term they would not survive the changes Humans force into Mother Earth. (digression) An ecologically stable Earth is much more profitable to a healthy economy in the long term (end of digression).
I already saw some moves made by the Oil and Gas industries starting to be really concerned, simply because (this time thanks to the governments) environmental accidents could potentially be financially unbearable. A couple of months ago I saw on the news that the proper OPEC is preparing to enforce a tax on Oil consumption. Governments are currently on heavy back-down of CCS projects, when not shut down (^-^) and on the contrary private sector is growing more independent due to internationalization (e.g. staying in the US to re-inforce the contrast, US is to become the first oil producer in 2014, thanks to unconventional production). No wonder that this idea I emulated almost a year ago but I never could quite finish (lack of time) is already been voiced out loud.
To conclude in a light note, Daniel C Bennet in many of his books explains how an idea or a meme is like a Been which purpose is to reproduce and survive (the original expression of the meme before the internet took it over as some funny-ish images cartooning your feelings of a particular event). A bit like a virus: protein shell, single DNA string invading your body to reproduce and move forward to another one. It can also create some physiological disturbances (if the idea is a strong one!!). I guess the idea I am mentioning in this post is a good example.