I agree with your sentiments, except that the perpetrators must be punished. The question is, where would this stop, and what would it really achieve. It's obviously not just one motor mafacturer, its many, and who within each company might not be so guilty as having to be punished? Everybody? What about their caterers and toilet cleaners, them too?
What about all the folk who give them a market because they can't stretch yet to an EV with all the features they can buy still in ICE vehicles, like long distance continuous use, big load capacity?
What it does, a punishment campaign, is fool everyone into thinking the problem is solved after the punishments have been meted out, when actually it isn't, the system will carry on destroying the planet, just with others in the hot seats, if not even some of the same.
The thing at the root of it all is the requirement for everyone to profit, at least enough to get the energy we each need to metabolise to live every day, 24/7. Would we, can we decide never to eat food wrapped in plastic? Probably not, So we all contribute to the system that is burning the planet, whether we want to or not, by that at least.
We can crack this thing wide open by removing the need for all to profit, by moving to Kardashev Money, straight away, we saw how quickly things change when massive stimulus is issued, and I've shown why it is fully sustainable, even necessary, to preserve the value in money, which is becoming increasingly less representative of the only energy product still relentlessly scaling up, despite it never being monetised, solar, especially domestic and community solar.
I've shown how use of more solar won't push up temperature at all, but actually reduce it, at any efficiency. Hence why it isn't really important that ICEs are less efficient, this is only a problem when they are fossil fueled, rather than fueled by say green hydrogen.
Then we should realise nothing electric can yet replace the functionality of the combination of the energy stored and capability to deliver it at high at enough rates to propulsion units to sustain flight of the combination over long distances around Earth, never mind into space. So there is much more than just the efficiency of the power plant that matters, when it comes to vehicles that have to l lift the entire combination of energy store and propulsion units into the air, with cargo.
Otherwise Starship would be electric already.
I think the biggest barrier to getting started with Kardashev Money is the perception by those at the top that they might lose personal safety, by losing at least some of their financial privelige, they might feel like there could be enough revenge emotion around, from people previously unable to vent their frustrations on them, who might perceive all their problems and previous losses to be down to them, to be a danger to them if they can't maintain the security they are accustomed to by having significantly more money, to afford significantly more protection/ armed forces, whatever.
Baying for them to be punished won't help reduce their concerns, so they will be far more likely to dig in rather than give up their way of doing things.
They'll keep defending the old system of extraction as long as they feel like they need to, be safe.
Fears of Pogrom make it all the more of a self fulfilling prophecy, I think, it's like dooming the planet.