You fail at reading comprehension. Obama is *for* the gas tax. Which is similar to being for the windfall profits tax, as you suggest. This still doesn’t seem like a great idea to me (crushes incentives to invest in energy development) but it doesn’t show any ignorance of tax incidence.

In my defense, however, I’d like to point out that that still makes me as knowledgeable about oil production as many of the ‘scieneists’ who support Anthropic Global Warming are about climate science and/or Global Warming, so there.

They have come up with this narrative in complete dishonesty in order to try to fool the public and shift the blame from obstructionists to the big bad oil companies. Its absurdity is a sign of their desperation on this issue.

Actually the fact that he was against the gas tax, but for “windfall profits” tax shows that he is an utter donkey devoid of any basic grasp of high school economics. Tax incidence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence, is a concept that if you don’t understand you have no business setting government tax policy.

In other words, these whiz kids assume that every acre of every lease holds the same amount of oil and gas. Yet the existence of a lease does not guarantee that the geology holds recoverable resources.

Obama’s Dry Hole

These people [Barack Obama, Democratic staff of the House Resources Committee] are ignorant fatass liars.

Just to take one of the wrong points Obama makes here: There is no scientist worth his or her salt who believes the U.S. could nearly “double” its oil production. Production is down to about half of its level in 1970, and that’s despite bringing Prudhoe Bay and most of the Gulf into the mix during the last four decades. If those finds couldn’t double U.S. production (and indeed they didn’t, as production never came back to 1970 levels even when they were at their peak), than the leases the oil industry now holds certainly won’t. Even the Bush/McCain plan to allow drilling in restricted areas like ANWR won’t double production, but it’s a realistic approach that may bring a million or more barrels extra per day on line in the next decade and should be done for many reasons, which I won’t go into now.