John Fleming: “Now, it's also been suggested, Well, perhaps we should punish these evil oil companies by taxing them. Mr. Chairman, who…”

“Now, it's also been suggested, Well, perhaps we should punish these evil oil companies by taxing them. Mr. Chairman, who pays the taxes? It's the consumers. It's the American people. You add a 10 percent tax to oil exploration or gasoline or whatever, and it's us, it's we--we are the ones who will have to pay that, not the oil companies. {time} 1640 Like any company, they pass these costs along to the consumer. So I want to see gas prices go down, not up, like the other side.”