The last politician to propose making driving more expensive was Al Gore, who fought to include a small energy tax--which would have included gasoline--in the Clinton administration's 1993 economic plan.
Al Gore is one of the politicians interested in global warming solutions.
Preaching that suffering came from the pursuit of personal desire, Buddha had advocated the Middle Way of the Eightfold  right views, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right recollection, and right meditation.