That sort of proposal is already in the bill that, unfortuanately, passed out of the Senate today, so Mr. Obama isn't the sole source of such thinking.

I find it interesting that we have examples of both ends of the spectrum on our little site here at the same time. Conventional (meaning broadest distribution) media covers a near meaninless issue with gasoline (see thread titled "Gas Science"), that at it's most improbable extent will have an effect of pennies, while this so called energy bill will take dollars out of consumer's pockets and it gets virtually no attention from either.