Top green priority in the legislature: a tax on oil

"To paraphrase Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen: $120 million here and $120 million there, and pretty soon you're into real money.

That $120 million is the amount that People for Puget Sound and its allies in the Environmental Priorities Coalition hope to raise for stormwater projects through a $1.50 per barrel tax on petroleum products (including gasoline, motor oil, and asphalt, but not jet fuel) that will go before this month's session of the legislature..."