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Surprise! Oil Overlords don’t want the people to set Gross Production Taxes

12:01 PM EST on March 6, 2018

Earlier this year, a vagabond group of social misfits, deviants and outcasts filed an awful intit....oops... sorry... for a second I thought I was writing for Continental Resource newsletter – The Fracker. Let's start over...

Earlier this year, a group of socially conscious rogue oil industry leaders – we'll call them The Oil Slickers –announced they were launching an initiative petition that would raise Oklahoma's insanely low and vehemently protected gross production taxes from 2% to 7%. The money from the tax increase would then be used to fund pay raises for greedy, selfish teachers.