Higher spill tax could come on top of other hikes, API warns

Proposals to raise the federal oil spill tax by $31 billion would increase the US oil and gas industry’s possible targeted amount to $117.48 billion in the fiscal 2011 budget, American Petroleum Institute officials warned.

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