samsmart
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I would agree to this on these conditions. 100% of the funds raised went to disaster preparedness and spill mitigation. Including funding and equipping the 1994 plan.
This tax however should only be applied to barrels produced on the gulf.
None of this tax should be used for anything else.
I'm fine for a tax on offshore drilling in the gulf. Even if it'll just trickle down to the consumer, hopefully it'll help get our country less reliant on oil as an energy source and cause us to be more effecient with it's use, and develop better public transportation infrastructure all over the country. I say go for it.