Quite tricky given that there's next to no tax on it in the first place. They don't like the free market when it bites them, only when it serves up bumper profits to their billionaire mates. Even funnier that they are the ones directly responsible for the spike.
I refer to my earlier post predicting that Trump will start pressuring oil companies to sell domestically at less than market rate.
That he didn't think energy prices would spike, when it was the first thing most commentators and a few drunk patent attorneys... well one... thought of immediately, tells you the level he is operating at.
He is the captain of the Golgafrinchen Ark Ship B, playing with rubber duckies in bubble bath. Almost literally.