The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held hearings and grilled oil company execs over the oil companies’ 8-cent per gallon profits.

They remained close-lipped over government’s take of nearly 50-cents of taxes per gallon. Or, as the Wall Street Journal noted, “that higher gasoline prices is exactly what would happen if Congress enacts proposed global warming policies”.

Three of the House’s Select April Fools.

Edward Markey (D-Mass)
Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

John Larson, D-Conn
Larson currently serves on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the House committee charged with writing tax legislation and bills affecting Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs.

Greg Walden (R-OR)
Walden was the only one of Oregon’s House members to vote against a “fix-up patch” on a bill to protect the middle class from a new tax.