"....now is precisely the wrong time to squeeze the industry that has funded our roads, schools and prisons for decades."

Uh, the industry itself did not fund our roads, schools nor our prisons for decades. Revenues from OUR oil did that. The industry was only the tool who got that oil out for us....until YOU made them the bigger, and almost only, 'beneficiary' of anything to do with our oil, revenues included.

Get your facts straight, please.