Excise taxes are huge costs for oil companies,they pay 10% on the first time the gas/oil is sold. The problem is what do you do when oil hits 80 or 90 bucks? And what about the budget deficit? The govt. needs the windfall of huge bucks to fund the outrageous deficits we now have.
I saw Buchanan he had one of his few lucid moments.
Good morning to you too, rodguy. I don't take advice or inspiration from Pat HasBeen Buchanan. Interviewing him or having him on talk shows as a token Republican is an unfunny joke.