Don Nickles: “If you no longer allowed intangible drilling costs to be expensed, you would shut down the shale revolution.”

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.

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

The biggest economic boon to this country has been the explosion of oil and gas activity, primarily because of fracking.

Uncle Sam is writing a check to Warren Buffett to produce windmills--$138 million.