How exactly do you think that would work? Do you think that if you put a giant tax on the fossil fuel industry everyone working in it would throw up their collective hands and take a pay cut? With the executives taking the lion's share because it's only fair?

Personally I think they would just pass the price along. We'd then be back to protests in the streets of France because none of those people are idiots. Plus the idea that raising the price of energy won't have knock on effects on the rest of the economy seems doubtful.