They know they can’t just inflict this pain on blue states or people and businesses will flee. Like Obamacare, they have to make it nationwide and inescapable.
The good news is that even in the event of a worst case scenario today, it’ll still be at least 10 years before the D’s have imported enough destitute third world voters to overwhelm rust belt congressional opposition to a carbon tax. Hopefully, by then this preposterous gutter religion will have even further discredited itself so that no public will for energy suicide exists even in more liberal circles.
The goal of the enviro-extremists is a world tax so nobody will have anywhere to flee to.