I have been watching Macron's attempts in France to act against global warming by taxing gasoline to a level where many more people will be forced to turn away from fossil fuels. The results have been catastrophic levels of public resistance to the idea. Life is just too hard without the ability to drive, our complex society is now set up this way. And the pain of the transition using this strategy falls much more heavily on the poor than on the rich - a situation the French in particular have a history of resisting.

IDEA: what about, instead of taxing gasoline, we tax the purchase of new cars that require gasoline, and make it especially high for luxury cars and cars that have low gas mileage. Convert that money into price breaks for electric cars, bikes and scooters and for expanding the system of  electricity "fill up" stations. If we kept the price of a new standard electric car under $10,000, this would strongly incentivize all classes of people to move to electric cars and take away most of the pain of the transition for those making normal incomes.