Evolution and Christianity and Salvation

[pocaracas]

To your point about gas, that is laughably illogical. Let me break down what you highlighted.
1. We want people to stop using gas so let's tax it.
2. We don't want to upset people so let's do it gradually so it's normative
If one is a goal, then you do want to upset people. If the goal of one is to get people to accept a tax to make a pile of money from their crimes against the planet then proceed.

It doesn't work, as was proven by the yellow vests.
Taxes must be increased slowly so as to discourage people when they decide to buy a new vehicle.
The problem of this is that vehicles have a lifetime that is usually more than one decade, so you can't penalize (too much) those who didn't know about these price increases when they purchased their cars.