Why shouldn't a policy debate over how much the US government subsidizes oil and gas be here, apart from you not liking it?
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Once it becomes law then it becomes intellectually interesting as the fallout is tangible.
So many things like this are proposed and fail to come to fruition, especially when heavily leaning towards one specific political group, that it's not very interesting.