[Sub-Driver]

idiots.......

[ducdriver]

They are in reality taxing everyone who uses energy, not the eeeeevil corporations they invest in for their private incomes.

[LibLieSlayer]

Dead people will soon start polling that they think the dims are doing a horrible job... then they can go for their coveted MINUS APPROVAL ratings! :-)

LLS

[NormsRevenge]

Close to a 3 trillion dollars budget isn’t enough?
They want more?
Good God!

[mysterio]

Just more anti-capitalist nonsense. If they really wanted to solve the problem, we’d be doing something to at least take a step towards energy independence.

[Aria]

Just a way to raise taxes on all of us but couched so it will look more politically correct. What a rotten group they are.

[FlingWingFlyer]

In other words, to Piggy Pelosi, TAXES ARE AMERICA'S FUTURE!

YAY PIGGIE! You da broad!

[muawiyah]

Guarantee ~ not a penny of their proposed new tax on fuels will go toward repairing, replacing or improving a single one of the 70,000 "deficient" bridges in America.

That's because the Democrats don't care.

[EBH]

Didn't Hillary start pulling this string a while back with this?

"Many of you are well enough off that tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

[tbpiper]

It's about our children

When they want to do something odious, this is always the first thing out of their mouths. Well, what about the children? How about the children's milk going to $10.00/gal because all the corn is going to ethanol?

[EBH]

What did Hillary say about oil profits?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PfE9K8j0g

[Gorzaloon]

"It's about our children, about our future, the world in which they live," Pelosi said.

Lying b`tch.

[darkangel82]

Nancy, no one falls for the “it’s for the children” crap you’ve been pulling all year. (omits rest of comments, which would get me banned)

[b4its2late]

[stephenjohnbanker]

evil idiots!

[RightWhale]

They will have some difficulty taxing oil companies that are foreign registered and not doing business in the USA, which would be about 75% of the oil business.

[Nathan Zachary]

Perhaps someone should short fuel Pelosi’s private jet. Maybe then she’ll get a clue what the future she is proposing will be like.

[4yearlurker]

Pelosi is a socialist idiot. The oil companies won’t pay a penny in new taxes. They will just pass it along to the consumer.

[coffee260]

"We are turning to the future."
What the hell does that mean?
"We are turning to the future." How retarded are these clowns?

[television is just wrong]

taxation, all about control.

[mamelukesabre]

I’ve wondered before about what would the effect be on the average working slob if instead of a tax on fuel and energy, it was subsidized? If the federal government eliminated all subsidies(including welfare and SS) except one, and transferred all that subsidy money to fuel/energy, what would the effect be? I realize some people would suffer horribly from lack of welfare and social security benefits. And fuel consumption would skyrocket until prices brought down the demand, but then profits in the fuel industry would skyrocket. Everyone and his brother would want into the fuel industry and fuel production would expand like magic, thus bringing down costs.

To be fair, the subsidies would have to be spread around to all forms of energy, not just fossil fuels. Heck, we could even dump heavier subsidies on the other forms...hydro, wind, nuclear, etc. And also research on batteries, hydrogen, nuclear fusion, etc.

At some point, we need to get people to understand that once society progresses to a certain level of technology, energy production becomes everything. As it stands, our bodies are literally made of petroleum. Our food is petroleum and sunlight converted to digestible forms. In the old days it was merely sunlight converted to digestible forms. But today’s level of world population and standard of living, we are required to utilize petroleum.

Fertilizer, insecticides, refrigeration, transportation, packaging, lubricants, solvents, coatings, plastics, seals, tires, hydraulics, composite materials, synthetic fabrics...none of these things exist without petroleum. It’s as necessary to human life as air water and sun.