The $.54/gallon tariff (import tax) on sugar cane
ethanol should be repealed. And, also repeal the sales
tax on gasoline, ethanol and utilities. These actions
would not only reduce natural gas & gasoline/ethanol
prices and drilled oil dependency but will also create
jobs for illegal Mexicans, Haitians, etc in their
countries while lowering corn based food prices.
Methanol, produced from coal and farmers’ crops,
should be the less expensive fuel supported by
taxpayers and their governments.

A windfall profit tax should be collected from the oil
and gas industry in the new USA energy bill. Rebate
this tax through a tax credit when the industry builds
NEW refineries, pipelines and oil extraction
facilities for tar sands and oil shale in the USA,
Mexico and Canada. Presently, oil profits are going to
enrich oil executives and repurchase shares; not for
oil facility investments in the USA. These investments
are good projects for tax abatement and tax increment
financing (TIF) instead of LOW wage jobs in
warehousing and
retail that increase residential property taxes.


Brent Pittman