As a piece of social policy, one has to wonder about the wisdom of slapping a big tax on the only people who are providing any of this oil we want so badly. One doesn't even have to wonder about the whole concept of all the schemes to make oil less expensive; did the demand curve for petroleum suddenly tilt the other way while we weren't looking? One more time, what's the logic of subsidizing domestic production and exploration: is there some prize for being the first country to use up its petroleum?There isn't, but there should be, dammit! Some suggested prizes for the US to be the first country to use up the last of its petroleum:
1) A thank-you bouquet from Osama bin Laden and co.
2) A polar-bear-skin rug for every American.
3) Wristwatches made of dead Iraqi children.
Leave your own suggestions in comments.
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4) A free shoehorn for removing your head from your arse.
That is, for the country to remove its collective head from its collective arse. (I don't want the previous comment to be taken the wrong way.)
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