What are you talking about? Oil companies doing business in the US, including importation activities, pay taxes on their US operations.
You are making a great mistake wanting the federal government to go farther in picking the winners and losers of competing industries.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan
What mistake is that? Why should the US create a level playing field for foreign companies to compete against US companies in US markets?
Foreign companies already have huge advantages over US companies, in that they can get dirt cheap labor and raw materials and foreign government subsidies. They are strong enough to destroy, and they have destroyed, many American companies.
So, pray tell, what do Americans get from this deal? Unemployment? A shrinking economy? Huge debt? What?
Tell me how bad things would be here if we erected potent trade barriers to these sharks. Would we have to open mines, make automobiles and computers, pay high wages because of high employment? Tell me about it.