For reference the US consumes approximately 7B barrels of oil per year according to https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6 https://www.eia.gov/tools/f

For reference the US consumes approximately 7B barrels of oil per year according to https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6 https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6 7B * $10 / 320M population = $218.75 per person. In case anyone was curious. Probably we can do something simpler than nostromo's plan. Pair the oil tax with a drop in the bottom tax bracket from 10% to 7%. That's about revenue neutral.