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?

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...

But giving a summer holiday to the gas tax could potentially put
350,000 people out of work (contrary to my last post). On another
message board I'm on - one for journalists - someone I trust posted
this
<<< CNN ran a figure today that the tax money -- which is spent on
Highway projects -- could end up costing as many as 350,000 jobs this
summer. Construction and repair companies will have to lower bids for
jobs and use fewer people to finish said projects, not to mention take
much longer to accomplish the projects. >>>

Let's see ... save 100 million people $20-30 this summer or
potentially put 1/3 of a million of people out of work. I wonder what
Hillary would say. She's probably say that it was a CNN figure and
they just did it to make her and McCain look bad. After all, she is
proving she can reach across the aisle to co-opt a Republican idea as
her own.

Hillary's plan is to pay for it with a tax on the oil companies. No money would be taken from repair.

Laurie


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