[ichabod1]

If it moves tax it.
If it keeps moving regulate it.
And if it stops moving subsidize it.

RWR

[Gay State Conservative]

I'd rather see reasonable steps taken to keep our production as high as possible than to see the bailout that the Rat Party enacted in 2009.

The potential benefit of blowing OPEC out of the water and bringing Vlad Putin to his knees are hard to exaggerate.

[Pollster1]

No. No company or industry is too big to fail. The oil industry is not entitled to my tax dollars. If they gambled and lost, they should have been more careful, shouldn’t they?

[IC Ken]

I own a company and we deal with gas and oil utilities. They make up 80-90% of our business. I for one would rather suffer than see this industry subsidized. With government money comes more rules and regulations that in the long run will cripple it. We need it to be strong not weak. It will survive if we just let everything work itself out. They government that worked to destroy all this now wants to help it? No they want total control of private business.

[catfish1957]

This is utter bs. The federal government is trying to destroy the oil industry in this country. Wasn’t the POTUS SOTU enough of a hint?

[GnuThere]

But wouldn’t that benefit RED states? Can’t see them doing that.

[SgtHooper]

What about coal, you government morons!!

[mrsmith]

Common sense regulation and fiscal policies that allow the private sector to grow would be a great ‘government bailout’ of the energy sector!

[central_va]

How about a 25.00 tariff on imported oil?

[central_va]

How about a 25.00 per bbl tariff on imported oil?

[AFreeBird]

WTF!?

[GenXteacher]

Just no- financial collapses are like forest fires- ugly, regrettable, but absolutely necessary to the ecosystem. No bailouts.