The American people have continued to enjoy the benefits of hydrocarbons for electricity, transportation, heating, and other uses. The "big polluting companies"

The American people have continued to enjoy the benefits of hydrocarbons for electricity, transportation, heating, and other uses. The "big polluting companies" produce legal products that meet vital needs. Demonizing them is hypocritical unless one lives like the Amish without electricity, and I doubt these retroactive taxes would stand up in court. It would be legal for Democrats to drastically raise the gasoline tax, but they avoid that because they know that people are not willing to pay much to ameliorate climate change.