Big gubmint coming at you. Call your congress critters before they ram it through like they did healthcare.
WE ARE BROKE!
We can’t afford higher prices!
You ****s in Congress hear me????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Question: So, why do we need an “Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund” when the Oil Companies have absolute liability?
Also, wouldn’t this tax be on top of the price of gas that Oil Companies will naturally charge to cover the cost of this and other oil spills? It’s not like oil companies will not pass on their costs at all level and covering all events to the consumer in some way.
This seems like a somewhat transparent, to some of us, way of generating more revenue - probably for other federal government programs - the trust fund part is really laughable, given the social security fiasco.
I’m getting so pissed off.
I suppose they will put the money that they collect
in a ‘lock box’ along side the social security money.