Probably same reason as here in Australia.

The gas companies have managed to create a multifaceted cult where they’ve brainwashed people into thinking electricity is unclean (despite things like heat pumps being 500% efficient), unreliable and expensive.

Also, it helps that people who paid too much for their ICE cars are scared and they know that their cars will increasingly drop in value as people transition away from gas and fossil fuels.

Here in Australia, post code is also common

Oh. So let the middle class buy all the carbon polluting crap they want at cheaper rates? Which they’ll then onsell to other people

That won’t work

The trick to distributing wealth is force the rich and multi nationals to pay their taxes

sigh

Carbon Taxes work, and have been demonstrated to work multiple times

The point of them is to change dirty products to cost their real amount.

Without a carbon tax, dirty fuels and a very cheap, and absolutely dirty products can be cheap. Whereas, you are actually adding the real cost to them, which makes clean, efficient products cheaper and affordable by the lower class

All it does is attach the real cost to everything.

You know what REALLY affects middle and lower classes? 2 degree rise in temperature.

I know that because I was a tradie for 10 years for high end clients, and some of them live in 5 story mansions with triple glazed windows, concrete, and $70,000 high-efficiency aircon systems. They save money there, but, they spend heaps of money on stupid shit they should be charged extra for (and likely will with a carbon tax).

These guys won’t even notice global warming. You and I will.