Discussion: Obama Wants Oil Companies To Pay $10-Per-Barrel Tax To Fund Clean Transport

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In addition to the $10-per-barrel tax, all of their massive subsidies need to be abolished.

Of course, we can file both of these sensible ideas under “ain’t gonna happen.”

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Sounds good to me. They can afford it. Now watch them all cry about what a hardship this will be for them. Its more likely to impact their bottom line on obscene profits and piss off their shareholders, but hey…we already knew that. I think the President should also tack on another $10 for superfund cleanup sites around the country that they’ve helped create. Whaaaaaa…You can almost hear them crying already.

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Yes, yes YES! This is more of our alleged lame duck president (gee, we haven’t heard this moniker from the other side now have we?) trolling all Republicans every chance he gets. Although of course this can’t become law w/o their votes in the House and Senate, his timing is superb. That and driving Republicans nuts! Watch for them to go absolutely ape-sh*t over this one, claiming overreach and that he’ll do an executive order soon (although I doubt he can do this).

Man, I hope he spends the rest of his time in office working to keep driving all of them bonkers and keep them off-balance on an ever-widening series of topics. Kudos Mr. President!

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