Alaska senator blasts White House plan to raise taxes on oil and gas producers

摘要

A key Republican senator warned last week that the Obamanadministration’s plan to raise taxes on the oil industry by upwardsnof $31 billion over the next decade could have the destructive,nunintended consequence of driving independent natural gas producersnout of the domestic drilling business.nSenator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the top Republican on thenEnergy and Natural Resources Committee, acknowledged thatnsome people “get up in the morning to hate” big oil companiesnbecause “they are seemingly the only ones making money” in thendown economy.