How much pain is Congress willing to inflict

I am on the edge of a conspiracy theory here. It is unlike me but I am starting to wonder if Democrats in congress know the damage they have done and are willing to see gas prices go to the roof for their agenda.

The thing I am unsure of is why. Are they doing it to make Republicans look bad for the upcoming election or is it just to pacify their masters in the radical environmental movement. If they are doing it to keep the economy sinking under the weight of high energy prices that would be treason and anti American since they would be purposely hurting the country. I would like to believe that is not true and am leaning toward the belief that it is just their dedication to radical environmentalism. That would make them collasally wrong and not anti American.

Under that assumption it can only be one of two things. Either they are so ignorant of basic economics they should immediately resign en mass to make room for someone with a clue or they are so in debt to their masters in the radical environmental movement that they should resign immediately for putting special interests ahead of our citizens. Ironically the poor are being hurt the hardest, the very people they purport to champion. Since that is the normal outcome of modern liberalism I am leaning toward that view. Either way our economy cannot get along with these spikes in energy. Congress has the ability to change it, but I suspect won't. The reasons are still out for conjecture. I still haven't made up my mind on the question.