Re: Candidates gas plans will raise gas prices

On Apr 30, 11:58 am, EStreetJoe <estju...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 30, 9:40 am, Evolution <myn...@xxxxxxx> wrote:





EStreetJoe wrote:
In terms of the suspending the gas tax, I agree with Obama that's its
just a gimmic to get the candidates through an election. 18.4 cents a
gallon x a 10 gallon fillup equals $1.84 per fill-up. Figure one a
week for the 12 weeks of summer and you get $22 and change.

You are soooo partisan... you'd believe anything Obama says.

How many people do you think would drive a mile or two to find gas which
is 5 cents/gallon cheaper than the local gas station?  Me, I never saw
the point in doing that to save 60 cents... but most people I know do
it.  So you don't think that saving $1.84 is going to help people?  How
about my son, who has $5.00 in his pocket and has a choice of spending
it on a fast food dinner, or buying gas to come visit me and get a free
good dinner at a decent restaurant... will that 18.4 cents savings allow
him to get here and back?

Depends on how good the mileage is in his car. <g>
He'll obviously spend the $5 on a couple of gallons of gas to come see
you, get some dinner and borrow some money.
I'm not partisan or biased, I'm realistic. I could call you partisan
for drinking Hillary and McCain's Kool Aid that suspending the gas tax
for the summer will actually help people. I don't think a $2 a week
(or every two weeks depending on the person's driving habits and gas
mileage) will help people.

The gas tax goes toward road maintenance and when dozens (or hundreds)
of people are out of work because the government has to postpone or
cancel road repairs because there's no money, who's being hurt more?



It's pretty elitist to suggest that saving a few bucks doesn't mean
anything; it could also buy another frame of bowling, and perhaps Obama
could benefit from that...

  So I'm an elitist.



  If Hillary

and McCain are such strong supporters of this, how come they're not
pushing it through the Senate now and only proposing while out on the
trail?

How do you know there aren't such proposals?

    Laurie, you're a smart person, you should know the answer.
   If either of them had a proposal active in the Senate, they'd be
saying "I've got a bill in the senate to suspend the gas tax for the
summer and make the oil companies pay for it" instead of simply
stating in a stump speech "I propose doing this...". The summer
driving season is just over 4 weeks away. Then again, they might think
people are too stupid to realize a campaign promise of suspending the
gas tax for the summer will be something that can be accomplished in
summer 2008 when the election is in November 2008 and the swearing in
isn't until Jan. 2009.

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Responding to Joe,

This is why Karl Rove suggested in an article that Obama go back to
the Senate for a few days and sponsor some new legislation of some
kind. Obama's already made up the bulk of the superdelegates and it's
his election to lose. As you have described, the gas tax relief
(through the windmill gas tax profits) takes away 300,000 jobs and
only affords each gas purchasing American $28.00 per month for 3
months. And that is supposed to be HRC's answer? Not good enough.

I think we all, as Americans, have to know when to bite the bullet,
and I, for one, am willing to do so. We've had to do it before. It
isn't popular, but if we can recycle some money into other methods of
energy, perhaps OPEC and the Texacos of the country who are making
millions while we suffer, will see that America has it's mind set on
alternative fuel sources. Some say it's only a few years before oil
runs out. Of course, I heard the same in the 70s, but still, it is
still only a matter of time ... just how much time we have, I do not
portend to know.

Bev
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