Don Nickles: “I think it would be a disastrous mistake for the Senate if you want the Senate to be a deliberative body.”

If you do really good tax reform, you do not need energy tax issues. Let the marketplace work.

I could not disagree with you more.

You cannot afford to make fossil fuels' tax equal to the enormous subsidy that wind currently receives.

Law makers must carefully distinguish between the need for tax credits which may operate as subsidies, compared to more favored tax deductions which are expensed as part of ordinary business operations.