Tom Friedman comes at the energy situation from another angle, but his core point, that we are transferring our wealth to the Middle East by the near-$100/bbl oil prices, and that a gasoline tax would be a win-win-win-win situation.
More importantly, he focuses on the idiotic arguments made by the You Know Whos regarding ANY taxation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/opinion/14friedman.html?hp