API comments on administration鶹ýӳs final budget proposal
Published by Rosalie Starling,
Editor - Hydrocarbon Engineering
World 鶹ýӳ,
The administration鶹ýӳs final budget proposal, which includes new energy taxes, signals a lame duck assault on American consumers, jobs and the US economy, according to API President and CEO Jack Gerard.
鶹ýӳNo longer constrained by electoral considerations, the administration has shifted from a balanced all of the above strategy on energy to an extreme policy objective: to choke off America鶹ýӳs energy renaissance and keep fossil fuels in the ground at the expense of consumers. The US$10 per barrel tax hike proposal and other higher taxes on American production proposed in the budget are just the latest expressions of what has been an increasingly hostile campaign against American consumers and our nation鶹ýӳs economy.
鶹ýӳThe US$10 per barrel tax hike 鶹ýӳ which would add about 30% to the cost of a barrel of oil and potentially about US$0.25 to the cost of a gallon of gasoline, according to reports 鶹ýӳ should be a wake up call. This is what 鶹ýӳleave it in the ground鶹ýӳ ideology really means: harm to consumers, diminished American competitiveness, weakened energy security and a return to energy dependence. It鶹ýӳs a head in the sand movement.
鶹ýӳThe proposed tax hikes could also have an impact on food prices and all sorts of goods that rely on transportation to reach consumers. Lower income and middle class Americans, for whom essentials like transportation and grocery bills consume a greater percentage of their income, would be harmed the most by these outrageous tax proposals.
鶹ýӳOnly extremists whose goals ignore the concerns of consumers and lower income families could welcome the administration鶹ýӳs backward approach.鶹ýӳ
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