They hate oil companies.
The oil companies are hesitant to make any investments
They hate fracking which revolutionized oil drilling
They stopped permits on Federal land ( and dismissed this as only a 5-10% reduction, clueless)
They stopped exploration in Alaska, even with environmental safety concerns met .
They killed the keystone pipeline that will affect oil transfers for years to come , besides dampening interest for other pipeline projects
They hate oil
The have this absurd concept of electric cars proliferating across the country
Let’s ask the minority population living in apartments in major cities if that have $45,000 laying around to buy a Tesla and install an electric port in their apartment where they can plug in and drop an extension cord out to there car parked on the street ,
In time we may develop an infrastructure and technology which allows the common person to own an EV . In the meanwhile it’s stick it to the people with higher gas prices to achieve a quicker path to this imagined utopia.