I had to laugh at this quote from your link Rufus.
"That's a lot of money to ask from an industry that can't afford to pay its own expenses, much less a $10 tax."
Does the commenter not know that the consumers of the refined oil products will be paying the tax ?
Calif. now has a carbon...
You still seem confused about the tax. The tax is on any barrel of oil that goes to a U.S. refinery. It doesn't matter if the oil is domestic light crude oil or imported heavy crude oil. The refineries are constructed to run the most efficient on a mix of light and heavy crude oils. The tax...