Oil tax increase would help pay to clean up spills
by By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Responding to the massive BP oil spill, Congress is getting ready to quadruple - to 32 cents a barrel - a tax on oil used to help finance cleanups. The increase would raise nearly $11 billion over the next decade....
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