Re: Candidates gas plans will raise gas prices

EStreetJoe 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.

Heh heh, you got that right... ;)

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.

Elitist...


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?

That's why Hillary will pay for it with a windfall profits tax. But she is aware this is not a longterm solution, which she has, by the way.


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.

But do you bowl?


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.

Joe

That was easy...
http://tinyurl.com/47m4lm

Mrs. Clinton said at a rally on Monday morning in Graham, N.C., that she would introduce legislation to impose a windfall-profits tax on oil companies and use the revenue to suspend the gasoline tax temporarily.

Laurie

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