Don't Use Gulf Crisis to Raid Trust Fund, Force BP-Endorsed National Energy Tax

Desperate for funds to bail out government programs, they're raiding a trust fund that was created — get this — to pay for just the kind of cleanup we now need in the Gulf. They're quintupling the tax oil companies pay into the oil spill liability trust fund that was created in the wake of Exxon Valdez, and instead of using this money to clean up the oil spewing in the Gulf, they're raiding the trust fund to pay for new, unrelated spending.