Re: OT - Gas Tax Holiday

Judity <Judity01@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:5a766012-f7c6-42bf-a2a3-
3793bc9aea8f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

If I understand what Senators Clinton and McCain are saying, they want
to have the gas tax stopped during the summer months. It would start
on Memorial Day, May 26, through Labor Day, September 1. Remember,
Memorial Day is only a couple weeks away. Nice idea, right?

I don't think it's a nice idea at all. Plus, if the feds cannot help with
cutting interest rates any more to help the housing market, how in the
world do they expect to get a gas tax holiday under-way? I also think it's
a bad idea because gas taxes go to things like road repairs, bridge
rebuilding and repairs, etc. They would have to get that money from
somewhere else.

I also think that if they try to regulate gas prices too much that the
refiners can just stop refining and refuse to sell it at a reduced cost.


That....and don't both of them support proposing a "cap and trade
market"??? on carbon emissions to help "combat" man-made global warming?
IIRC an article I read on that stated that in and of itself would raise gas
prices approx 35 cents per gallon and also raise your home electric costs.
Maybe they are supporting the holiday so we all won't be so ticked off when
the other thing they are supporting goes through and it's raised so much.
.

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