He must be counting on those who support him not realizing that oil companies, like any business, will just pass their higher tax bill on to the consumer through the price at the pump.
Win/win for him. He gets to blame the oil companies for high gas prices AND gets more taxes to use to buy votes with (not to pay off debt - can’t buy more votes with that) while getting NONE of the blame for those higher gas prices.
Unfortunately he’s right. The publik skools have did there jobs too well.
Yes, sadly the part of the brain in Liberals which connect the “Cause Lobe” and the “Effect Lobe” is more or less permanently disconnected.