Originally Posted by rockinbbar
To put this "tax" in dollars...

In 2013 the U.S. oil production was 7,441,000 barrels.

http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=us&product=oil&graph=production

A $10 per barrel tax would be $744,100,000.00 dollars per anum.


It would come from somewhere. Want to guess from where?


From my look at that chart, it looks like that number is is per day, not per year.