Chuck Schumer is gabbing about the oil subsidies

They expect it to come to a vote this week. It would only stop the subsidies for big oil: BP, Sunoco, Shell, Exxon Mobil, and Conoco. The little guys won't be affected.

The purpose of the bill is to make a dent in the deficit. It will NOT affect gas prices.  "The government sends $1 billion a day overseas to countries we don't like."

I think this is the one they are talking about:

Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny to taxpayers with gross revenues in excess of $100 million in a taxable year (applicable large taxpayers): (1) the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs, (2) the tax deduction for qualified tertiary injectant expenses, (3) the exemption from restrictions on the deductibility of passive losses, (4) the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells, and (5) the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, natural gas, or primary products thereof.

Requires applicable large taxpayers to amortize their geological and geophysical expenditures over a seven-year period.

Imposes on producers of taxable crude oil or natural gas a 13% excise tax on the removal price of such oil and natural gas produced from lands on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Allows a nonrefundable credit against such tax for royalties paid under federal law with respect to the production of such crude oil and natural gas.

Denies a foreign tax credit to any large integrated oil company that is subject to a levy of a foreign country or possession of the United States and receives an economic benefit from such country or possession (dual capacity taxpayer) if such country or possession does not impose a generally applicable income tax.