My Life, by Bill Clinton: on Energy & Oil

Al Gore: 1993: Hard line on deficit reduction, paid for by BTU tax

For several house more, we again debated how much deficit reduction we had to try for, beginning five years out and working back to the present. Gore took a hard line, saying if we went for the biggest possible reduction, we'd get credit for courage and create a new reality, making it possible to do previously unthinkable things, like requiring Social Security beneficiaries above a certain income level to pay income tax on their benefits.