Obama wants to give out a second stimulus check of a $1,000 funded with a new tax on oil companies.

We need new alternatives to energy and we need to get off of foreign oil. Gas is expensive and only going to get more expensive. HOWEVER how is taxing a company going to lower the price of their services? If you set a cap on how much money a company can make why would they ever strive to make more than that amount. If that company is suppling your country an essential ingredient to survival what happens 6 months into the year if they just shut everything down because they made their cap and there is no point in earning any more money. Money, PROFIT is why you go to work and why companies exist.

I swear on my life if I get a refund check that is directly taken from excess profit tax on the oil companies, I'll send the damn thing right back to Exxon and Shell as its out right theft.

If the government ever came to my door and said you sell snakes and mice are suffering from it and you therefore must pay an extra tax to the "let mice be free" fund I'd move my business across the border before I could slam my door.

Most politicians are still jumping on the bandwagon that oil companies MUST spend x amount of money each year on finding new renewable resources. While that is important, think to yourself really quick how ridicules that is. Shell is an OIL company, not a wind company, not a geothermal company. If you had a PHD in heart surgery, should the government really come to you and say that you MUST perform brain surgery?