AWG is an excuse for the Progressives to squash energy production to spread Americas wealth world wide, and get rich on the process.
The rest is all smoke and mirrors.
That's what got me with the "carbon credits" business. Never gave much thought to that, other than it being the usual attack on the industrialized West, until I saw an article on how it was supposed to work. They would be traded on an exchange, and Goldman Sachs, et al would be the middlemen, charging commissions on every transaction. As often posted here, "Follow the money".