I'm not there, and I'm not French, so I honestly don't know what the protests are really about. But the fact that the commercial media is pushing the selfish anti-carbon tax narrative so hard makes me think it's not at all about that.
If I had to wager a guess, I'd say that if the gas taxes are a significant part of this uprising at all, it's because the government is putting 100% of the carbon tax burden on individual drivers even though they account for less than 17% of emissions.
If I had to wager a guess, I'd say that if the gas taxes are a significant part of this uprising at all, it's because the government is putting 100% of the carbon tax burden on individual drivers even though they account for less than 17% of emissions.