[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

the states where the oil is tax the crap out of it to where it about defeats the purpose, in a redistribution-of-wealth kind of way...Maybe we need to invoke the Interstate Commerce Clause

Well there you are. I don't trust the Congress to do anything smarter than their own "redistribution of wealth" program: nationalize the oil industry.

Not to say we shouldn't become energy independent, and drill the livin' daylights out of every oil deposit possible, but the politicians will quickly find a way to foul it up.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Not to say we shouldn't become energy independent, and drill the livin' daylights out of every oil deposit possible, but the politicians will quickly find a way to foul it up.

Yep, once they take over we can't get them out of it. We,re still paying heavily for FDR's misadventures in farming subsidies.