Avoids Central Issue: Increasing American Energy Production

President Obama Creates Subsidy Distraction

- EPW Blog
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Washington, D.C. - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today responded to President Obama’s letter to Congress asking for oil and gas tax increases.

“With his letter to Congress today, President Obama apparently forgot that 61 senators last year voted against his proposal to raise taxes on America’s oil and gas companies, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm? ... D4EE864373 and hence on consumers, and spend the money on green energy,â€