The evidence in California, New York, and Europe is that people will and do pay more for energy because they want to get rid of fossil fuels. If California can do it then the rest of the world can follow.
People are willing to pay a little more for energy. They are not willing to pay enough more for energy to matter.
They reconcile that reality with their desire to save the planet by pretending that the small amount they are willing to pay more for energy is enough to materially affect climate change. It is not. Which is why the types of proposals that could materially affect climate change (like a really large carbon tax) never get proposed even by very liberal governments (like that of California). Because even in California, they know that a carbon tax big enough to matter is one big enough to get them voted out of office.
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