[Darth Reardon]

we sure could start putting a pretty big daily dent in our national deficit

Well, we COULD do that. Or, we could point to it as a source of new revenue, extrapolate the price of oil to explode in the future, and use that as an excuse to borrow like crazy so we can have more pork.

[r9etb]

Well, we COULD do that. Or, we could point to it as a source of new revenue, extrapolate the price of oil to explode in the future, and use that as an excuse to borrow like crazy so we can have more pork.

The really awful part is, you're probably exactly right.