Obama is dead wrong!
The gas tax holiday is not meant as a
quick fix or a fix of any kind!
It is meant to provide some temporary
relief to American taxpayers!
What's wrong with that?

Reaganfan, what is wrong is that Mccain at one time did not support the Bush tax cuts and now supports it to get votes. Mccain did not support big government and populist agenda and now he does. Where does McCain stand.

the McCain/Clinton plan is awful. It won't make any significant difference as Oil companies will raise prices to cover the new tax Clinton proposes. If you want to lower gas, lower the demand. Invest $10 billion in manufacturing 3 million cars that don't run on gas. 3 million fewer customers will have more of an effect. Sell half the national reserve to the oil companies, use the money to manufacture another 50 million cars and then replace that oil at half the cost.

Speaking of "gall", I would just turn this around and ask obama" "didn't your esteemed wright have the gall to come out this afternoon and say he is being "crucified" by his statements? Where does wright get the "gall" to say he is being crucified? Wright and obama really do think they are part of a deity don't they? I cannot believe the GALL of obama or wright. These two very ugly spirited people have pushed the Civil Rights movement back 50 years and I know they just love it. What kind of people have we been turning out that have the "gall" to want to destroy America. The gall-less like obama and wright?

Yes, it would be nice to hear about the issues. The mud slinging gets us nowhere and what we really need to know is WHAT will each person do. How will each candidate fix a problem? All this mud just muddies (pardon the pun) up the water and keeps us off track from finding some real solutions. At least Obama has some solution ideas, some of which may work, others won't. But in the end, we will never really know if these ideas will work until the election is over and the individual in office. What they promise now and what they really can do are two very different things.

I don't need immediate relief at the pump, I need long term solutions that will kick-in within four years. McCain has nothing on this issue. I think he believes trees cause global warming or that to save the ice caps we need to attack the penguins.

Horget a gas tax holiday...that is stupid...so we sace 50$ once and then the oil and gas companies slowly raise it back to the same height and say it is from pressure from the middle east and that their refinieries shortage is hurting the American people

all the while these companies are making huge income....getting bigger and bigger.

This is like giving the money to the oil companies by saying here is the gas relief...and within days they will raise the costs...and the tax (that helps America pay her bills...you know the ones we owe to China for this great war McCain wants to keep up)...
that tax will never be able to be reinstated...because it will be too big of a jump.

This is dumb on McCain's part...he said he wasn't an economist and now we see that he isn't.

Senator McCain's "gas tax holiday" would take place during the summer driving season, when demand for gas will already be high.

He wants to encourage people to burn even *more* gasoline?

Also, when the "tax holiday" is over, will that constitute a tax increase? :-)

The gas tax holiday is one of the more inane ideas to be proposed yet.

Suspending the federal 18.4-cent-per-gallon tax would save the average motorist about $28. But the plan would cost the government $9 billion in lost highway funds and put at risk an estimated 300,000 jobs tied to the funding, according to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
This at a time when the Highway Trust Fund, which bankrolls local and state road and bridge projects, is already facing a $3.4 billion deficit.

A McCain said he would borrow from the general fund to make up the shortfall, but doing that would just add to the federal deficit.

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Gas tax holiday is not going to releive the pain at the pump when the costs keep rising...5 cents isn't going to matter.

The prices are going to continue to rise...

and his logic isn't child's logic...in fact when I read yuor comment I thought you were calling McCain's gas tax holiday Child logic. Because that is what it is.

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Obama is absolutely right abut the gas tax - if we have a tax holiday, people will never see a cent out of it because McCain's friends in the oil industry will just raise prices to make up the difference and increase their own profits.

The truth about rising gas prices is that they aren't actually being caused by supply/demand issues, but by the tanking value of the dollar. We should still be pushing fuel efficiency and alternative energy sources as a means of achieving energy independence and helping the environment, but if we really want to get the price of gas down, we're going to have to address the weak dollar.

Obama has a plan, to invest billions in developing alternative energy sources, a byproduct of this being a lower demand for oil. Investing in alternative energy is the only thing that will work in the meantime. Obama's also 100% right, as soon as the gas tax is suspended prices will go up voided any real savings. McCain and Clinton are all politics. Obama's the only one with real, lasting ideas.

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Go to Obama's website and read his energy policy. How can you say he doesn't have one. By the way, a gas tax holiday is not an energy policy. What programs will they stop funding because they don't have a gas tax to pay for them?

To save money on gas, people could also:
- take public transit (much cheaper)
- replace the big SUV for a smaller fuel efficient car
- limit the use of car to what's absolutely necessary
Europeans have understood one thing long time ago that, apparently, is too difficult for American people. By raising tax on oil, they force people to reduce their fuel consumption, allowing these countries to be less dependant on Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, obliging local car manufacturers to produce better cars and thus be more competitive, having more money to invest in education, health care, green technologies and else (= money stays in the country), and protect the environment at the same time.
Is it too difficult to understand ??? What benefits will the short term tax break have for the country in the long term ? (answer: nothing, it's just a waste of money)

Without the gas tax they'd probably cut funding for education programs again so people are just smart enough to go along with what politicians tell them but not quite smart enough to question their leaders.

This temporary gas tax idea is a joke , so we get a five cents off a gallon or what ever , meanwhile the oil companies and market weekly keep driving up gas prices to four bucks and well over . It's a pull the wool over your eyes BS plan is what it is and of course MCcain and Clinton support it knowing so many will think they are actually getting relief and that somethiung serious is being done about gas prices . Obama calls it like it is , a joke .That's the difference between Obama and Clinton , Clinton lies and deceieves and plays games , anything for political gain . Obama is and will be straight up with the American people .

The gas tax holiday has never passed Congress. It's never passed specifically because the federal highway program would lose the funding that the gas tax creates.

Obama's solution is to leave the gas tax alone, since it will provide maybe a half-tank's savings over the summer, and focus on alternative energies and other long-term fixes. This makes more sense than either Clinton's or McCain's proposals. A temporary "holiday" won't work, especially when prices are rising by a penny a day. By the time Memorial Day rolls around, we'll probably be over $4/gallon. Honestly, the $0.18 doesn't make much difference at that point - except to endanger hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Clinton's plan is proposed to be financed by a temporary windfall profits tax (which I don't think will ever pass; I can just see the oil lobbyists locking up votes to defeat that now). McCain's plan isn't financed at all (unless Cindy's chipping in), which seems to fly in the face of typical conservative fiscal policy.

Obama is his own worst enemy. He voted for the Cheney Energy Bill. His "typical white people" "lunch pail workers", bitter, total disregard of his mother and grandparents, aloofness, whining and short temper are just some of his problems. When your minister of 20 years starts dissing you there is a BIGGER problem we don't know about. Wright and Obama's other 'patrons' are tightening the choke collar on him trying to keep him inline. Wright has an ego as big as all outdoors, but his presence now is motivated by "the old I made you, I can break you" syndrome at work in all its glory. Obama is bought and paid for.

The Gas Tax Holiday is a total joke. The gas tax is only 18 cents a gallon. Imposing the gas tax holiday would drop the price to a SUPER!!! affordable $3.57 a gallon from its current price of $3.75 a gallon in Seattle. Yeah, that will really help.