The existing federal tax structure on energy is already loaded with enough taxes on oil companies, that this strategy would add significant revenue to the federal government. But we’d also get increased revenues from construction, transportation, and other forms of related commerce that would create more jobs from upscaled production to meet the new development demands. That, plus payroll taxes from domestic job growth in all these industries, would infuse the national treasury with even more new cash from new sources. So instead of what we are doing now, looking to steal cash from places that just don’t have it, and straining existing capital and investment, we’d have all new growth with all new money. We then use a chunk of that new revenue to stimulate a massive alternative energy research and development project in the US, without having to cripple our economy to do it.