dirty cheap energy fuels the economic engine

if a country increases taxes and or tariffs on dirty energy 

such as coal, natural gas and oil 

then the price of energy will increase 

and people will become more poor 

so that people won't have money to buy electric cars 

since electric cars are often new and more expensive 

and if the price of energy increases 

then that will slow down the economic engine 

which will slow down purchases of cleaner technologies 

since both companies and people won't have enough money to pay 

so it's reasonable that coal, gas and oil power plants 

produce cheap dirty energy 

that an increasing amount of electric cars and electric semi trucks 

charge their batteries on 

using technology to better the environment 

is not a one step solution 

instead it's a multi step process 

technological development goes hand in hand 

with economical development 

dirty cheap energy fuels the economic engine 

which pays for research of new clean technologies 

and makes companies and people richer 

so that they can afford to buy new clean technologies