Seriously? How is this not a direct pander and exploitation of an important issue just to get votes. You would save more on gas by making sure tires are inflated properly and air filter is cleaned. $2 a week at most for the summer, assuming gas prices don't go up at all. that is what Hillary Clinton thinks your vote is worth. There is no quick fix. Her fix would give you that extra dollar or two a week for the next 4 months but then how many people will be out of work and how many roads and bridges will go unrepaired while she tries to get her proposed tax on oil companies passed? That will absolutely not be law before next year, which means more deficit. She is the mom feeding the kids Ice cream, candy and cake for dinner and then will wonder why they have stomach aches?

Obama clearly understands the affect of high gas prices. he also understands, based on his previous experience that the holiday will not help because the savings to do not get to the customers.

Clinton opposed a gas tax holiday before she was for it.

Obama was for it before he was against it.

Tax holiday? she is crazy, then she wants to tax the oil companies, what do you think they will do? pass the cost to the customers, she is willing to say anything at this point...

What do Hillary Clinton, George Bush and John McCain have in common?

This axis of irresponsibility, these three amigos are peddling deceptive remedies to the Gas Price Problem.

Bush says stupid stuff that is demonstratively false about ANWAR saving the day on energy needs. But these false statements ain't the worst of it. It is bad enough that he can look at the camera and with a straight face B.S. the voters with nonsense. The worst of it is that he believes that you may be stupid enough to fall for it. Hardcore disrespect.

Enter Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Both Hillary and John take up the Bush Stupidity Challenge. They both expect alotta you to fall for the B.S., too. These two are staying the course by offering the magic wand to solve the problem.

But apparently these three two Panderers are the Grownups. Bush is just their friend .... and also the Loser that leads the way for Hills and McCain to follow. Bush sets the path. They follow.

I read this article and I must say I'm really impressed. 18 cents of every gallon of gas, wow Hillary and McCain what an idea!!!! While we are at it why don’t you really do something smart and good for the country like introducing and passing legislation so we can drill in Anwar. How about building more refineries in this country? It's been thirty plus years since one has been built. Oil consumption throughout the world is out of control especially in China and India they continue to pollute the environment and stick it to the United States whenever they can. But you continue to bash the Bush administration as big oil. Last time I heard Bill Clinton was still taking big fees for speaking engagements in Saudi Arabia at the tune of 500,000 dollars a speech. I wonder if he chastised the Saudi government for high oil prices. I’m sure he forgot to mention it. It’s always the good old United States fault. The world has never had the high demand of oil as it is today. When Bill was president China’s population rode bicycles. Now you can’t even breathe the air in Beijing and that poses a health risk to the athletes during the Olympics. Now we have cars and trucks and coal mines spewing pollutants into the atmosphere. Did I hear you say global warming Hillary? No you didn’t we are responsible for global warming. Hillary? When you scream to your supporters about our dependence on foreign oil think about this. Also the war Hillary voted for and McCain wants real bad was the genesis of our oil problem. Also every time we the interest rate is reduce and our currency is devalued, it means we have to pay more for gas. If you want to drive the price of oil down quickly announce to the world that we are drilling in Anwar. The oil speculators will be in frenzy and prices will go down. Anwar drilling will not hurt the environment and any expert in the field will tell you that. So stop the rhetoric about a holiday gas tax relief and do something for the long term. Band aids are not the answer. A sound energy policy is. We never had one and as long as politicians use energy as a campaign issue we will never have one. Just one more thing I wonder Hillary if you are aware that millions of people have pension funds tied to oil company stock so when you continue to want to bring them down think of the millions of peoples retirements you are damaging, it would also lead to the poor maintenance of our infrastructure & the loss of thousands of jobs in this sector. But once again your supporters and adoring public are naive and uneducated when it comes to these things and they are easily fooled by you. Gimmicks are not the solution to American problems, OK?

can their be any more proof that HRC is a closet republican candidate? A meaningless tax cut that will cost billions and not be paid for.

What is wrong with doing what is best for American citizens? Obama in the Illinois senate voted FOR suspending the gas tax, so now he is against it? the guy flip flops on everything, this, the Wright fiasco, yet his supporters still follow him like lemmings. Hillary wants to give a break to Americans, and then put the tax on the oil compaines, who made billions in profit this quarter. Meanwhile, Obama LIES when he says that he doesn't take money from oil compaines, when he clearly does. How can you possibly still support Obama? I don't get it.

Hillary's pandering is sickening.

So who is paying the the gas for the motorcade, helicopter, and all the press for this hollywood elite production. we the taxpayers maybe?

Next week, everyone will say that's a bad idea, and she'll say she was against the tax holiday, she is nuts!

I would be more impressed by a candidate that started mandating Zero emmissions and did real investment into cars that don't run on gasoline.

OIL COMPANIES REPORT LARGEST "PROFIT MARGINS" EVER! THE SHOULD CUT THEIR SALARIES AND BONUSES AND LOWER THE COST OF GAS TO CONSUMERS. TOO GREEDY!

ON ANOTHER NOTE --- WHY IS BILL O’REILLY NOW “UNFAIR AND UNBALANCED”?

HE SAID HE WILL ASK HILLARY “REALLY TOUGH QUESTIONS” TONIGHT!

OBAMA GETS A PASS — O’Reilly is now defending Obama, saying “Of course Obama doesn’t believe all the stuff that loon Wright says.” But how does HE know that? How do ANY of us know that? We can’t and we don’t.

INDIANA AND NORTH CAROLINA VOTE NEXT TUESDAY — BILL SHOULD NOT QUESTION HILLARY BEFORE THEN — UNLESS HE ASKS OBAMA “TOUGH” QUESTIONS, TOO. OBAMA HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES.

HILLARY HAS EXPERIENCE.

OBAMA HAS POOR JUDGMENT.

I’M TRULY DISAPPOINTED IN O’REILLY — WHY HAS HE SWITCHED?

Doublestandard, proudamerican2008,

Good comments.

this week, people are saying it is a bad idea.

High gas prices are the result of a weak dollar. The dollar is weak because we have half a trillion dollars out in loans from China! We have been set up for failure and it is the last thing the Bush administration and the Republicans want to talk about. That debt must be bought back, the war has to end and there are going to be taxes. NAFTA has been a disaster. HRC is working for the Columbian deal which will benefit her personally through her husband's off shore funding group. McCain or Hillary mean a third Bush term. It is time that the USA started beign the USA again.

Oil company is behind Obama.
They order him what to do.

Just becareful he will change his idea any time if he needs to.
Just like he did it to the Capital tax .
He suddenly denounced his pastor because he wants to get white voters.

Sen. Clinton said, "We will pay for it by imposing a windfall profits tax on the big oil companies," she said on Tuesday. "They sure can afford it. This is a big difference in this race. My opponent opposes giving consumers a break from the gas tax but I believe the American people are being squeezed pretty hard."

The cost of a gallon of gasoline has touched $4 in some parts of the country as oil prices nudge toward a record $120 per barrel, hammering drivers at a time when higher food prices and falling home values are already crimping U.S. consumers.

Many economists implicitly agreed with Obama and said the McCain-Clinton gas tax plan sent the wrong signal on energy efficiency and was at odds with their pledges to combat climate change by encouraging lower U.S. carbon emissions.

"I think it is a very bad idea," said Gilbert Metclaf, a economics professor at Tufts University currently working with the National Bureau of Economic Research.

"If we want people to invest in energy-saving cars, we need some assurance that the higher price paid for these cars is going to pay off through fuel savings," he said. "It is a very short-sighted, counterproductive proposal."

Economists also saw it is a poor way of getting money to the households that need it most and warned that it might end up in the cash tills of the oil companies

What they found in Illinois is that the tax removal did nothing to reduce the price of gas, the prices still went up and any benefit was lost. That does not address the issue of why gas prices are high. Our refineries are only working at 85% of capacity, the oil companies make billions every month in profit. It is certainly within their control to reduce price on their product.

Kind of funny that she doesn't remember how to pump gas, but as a Jersey girl, I understand. A couple months after I got my license, I had to get gas in Pennsylvania and we had to go into the store and ask the guy to show us how to do it...being from New Jersey, we're used to mandatory full serve. Now that I live in Virginia I've had to get used to pumping it myself...wouldn't mind having an entourage of Secret Service to do it for me!