He is so out of touch. Saving people $70 may not seem like much to him but every bit helps. If a family has two cars that would be $140. Families that live paycheck to paycheck can do a lot with $140. We also need to look at summer vacations and tourist spots. Do we want to bail them out in bankruptcy court? What about all of those that depend on these business for summer employment. What do we tell the colleges kids that get laid off early becuase business is so slow. They aren't talking about this being forever, just through the summer months. If the people don't feel something is being done they won't travel. I understand about supply and demand, but do we not also need to stimulate the economy? Everyone agrees we need a long term plan, but we also need something done now. I see two of the three candidates willing to try something, and Hillary's plan would not affect anyone losing jobs. Listen to her details.

Hill the Bosnian General you have saved 109 million + 800 000 from Urube in Colombia and you think that American families deserve to save $70 and that is so fabulous and so nice, what an elitist attitude, an insult to our intelligence, what a disconnection, Washington politics at its best. May God save America from Hillary, McCain and FoxNews. God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.

It is worth noting that the primary in NC and IN and ultimately the election hinge on a bet by two of the candidates that low information voters will believe their preposterous assertions that a "gas tax holiday" will help them pay their fuel bills this summer.
Anyone with a high school level education in economics will tell you a gas tax holiday will actually have the effect of raising gasoline prices. The consumer will simply never see a dime and the oil companies will make even higher profits. Not to mention the fact that it might put as many as 300.000 people out of work when the country is reeling from job losses or drive our debt even higher.

It is simply impossible to even suggest that such a measure could be introduced much less pass through congress before the end of the summer given nobody but McCain and Clinton support it in congress.

We are witnessing an epic and historic clash of old and new politics, one rooted in pander and deception of the past and one with the promise of truth and transparency.

My vote is for Senator Obama

The truth is:
Obama voted twice in his state to reduce the gas tax. But why is he opposing it now?

The Wright flip shows he doesn't have good judgement. Remeber there is also Rezko on trial, who may cut a deal with the prosecutors soon. There is also bill Ayers. He hasn't answered that question yet. A simple backgroud check of Obama turns out so many things that an average American couldn't easily feel agreeable. Michelle cried out that this is distraction. But shouldn't Americans have the right to know all the aspects of a person who is going to the leader and in charge of pretecting the country?

The rational that a lot people are using to support Obama is "I like him, he seems so honest". Isn't this the same reason that people got Bush into the office?

Come on people, get real.

Clinton has real solutions and ideas to fix the energy crisis, and gas prices. All Obama has done has said oh that won't work that is political pandering. Well guess what where is your idea then?

You are always saying Cliton is negative, Clinton is like Karl Rove, well then stop attacking her ideas, and come up with some of your own.

Please someone on this thread respond and tell me what Obama's plan is on getting gas prices down besides the other steps that Senator Clinton has already outlined.

He is playing politics with people's money and that is not right.

I want to hear from him what he will do, instead of saying Clinton is trying to get votes. I don't care about that I care about having money in my pocket so I can afford to eat.

This makes me so mad, that he is going around all of these towns and saying Hillary's plan is calculated and political, but then has no plan of his own.

COME ON OBAMA, YOU ARE JUST WORDS AGAIN.
GO Hillary 08

The ONLY American politician who can impact gas prices RIGHT NOW is BUSH; and he will not; because Bush DOES CANNOT CARE about the plight of ordinary Americans!

No candidate for Presidency can impact gas tax now!
So McCain & Hilary is just pandering!
Hilary is just playing politics as usual'!

Bush can tap into the OIL RESERVE; since we do have an emergency.

And Bush can appeal to his oil buddies to ROLL BACK GAS PRICES as a PATRIOTIC DUTY!

The Special Interest Congress WILL NEVER pass a windfall tax.
And the BUSH WILL NEVER SIGN a windfall tax on oil executives!

Now is the time for the PRUDENT Presidential candidate to AGAIN remind Americans of the NEED FOR AN EFFECTIVE ENERGY POLICY!

$70.00???? Those who know math estimate the savings at .30 per day for most drivers. Of course if you try to set Clinton straight she would just say...."I'm so sorry, I was misinformed."

What about the families of the 300,000 construction workers Hillary would put out of work? The windfall tax has no chance of passing in Congress (of course neither does her gas tax holiday). Sounds like pandering ti me!

Where does she get $70??? According to her... who cares about "according to her studies". I have not heard that figure anywhere else. Hillary... your slimy tactics aren't going to work. I am so sick and tired of them

Which branch did Obama proudly and bravely serve his county in?

Ken said: "Which branch did Obama proudly and bravely serve his county in?"

In case you haven't heard, He unlike Clinton and McCain has been AGAINST THE WAR from the first.

On the other hand, Clinton has been riddled by sniper fire in Bosnia. INCOMING!!!

Of Course, now Clinton says "I'm sorry, I was misinformed."

My comment to Hillary and her supporters is that I really feel sorry for you all. If Hillary is honest and has the best solution for the America people, she can't really believe this latest plan regarding the gas tax holiday is good for the America people short term. I am not that smart, even I can see through this issue. I like Hillary, but this gas tax holiday is really out in left field. Please let us all see this for what is really is, self serving

This just shows how disrespectful and rude obama supporters are. Have ANY Clinton supporters ever been rude to Obama while he was speaking? NO because Clinton supporters are mature and rational, not immature zelots.

Hillary: How can you close me up? On what grounds?

Bill: I'm shocked, shocked to find that pandering is going on in here.

Reid: Your earmarks, Mrs Clinton.

Hillary: Oh. Thank you very much. Everybody vote for me (wink)!

Gorgon: Casablanca.....Good show!

She is a panderer. The gas tax holiday is a joke. It will save the average driver between $30 and $40 dollars over the course of the "holiday." If you are saving $70 over 10 weeks, you are driving an awful, awful lot. Consumers aren't going to see this "savings" directly anyway. It would take roughly $9 billion out of the federal highway fund (remember that bridge in Minnesota?). This would potentially create more debt, increase demand for oil, cost highway/transportation jobs, and do nothing to lower the cost of gas. Sounds brilliant to me. If I'm passing more debt on to my children and doing nothing to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, how am I saving any money?

Oh wow...after being called an Obama Zombie let me go right out and vote for Hil....

Obviously the mature and reserved Hillary constituency does not need the vote of vile and rude zombies.

Eliminating the federal gas tax for the summer will cost 300K jobs? Deward...I think you have been smoking some "bowls". Cant you Obama fans ever make a factual statement?

Copy and paste this message.... TO ALL THE OBAMA SUPPORTERS: Since the media is refusing to reveal/report the Paul vs. Clinton fraud case in court right now, we need to create our own movement and flood every blog on CNN and every blogging website on the World Wide Web with information from the case regardless of what the topic is. For those that don't know - Google Paul vs Clinton and hold on to your shirt with what you read!! OBAMANACS UNITE!!! LET'S DO THIS!! WE CHALLENGE GEORGE STEPHANOPLOUS TO ASK HER THIS QUESTION! “TRANSPARANCY”

Look, it's not the 18 to 24 cent a gallon savings that the Obama campaign and corporate economists object to here, it's Clinton's call for a windfall tax on oil profits to pay for it. Boy, what a terrible idea... His arguments against the proposal are bizarre in that they each seem diametrically opposed to the other. No real savings, more gas consumption because price is lowered, and now he says the price will acttually go up and we'll see "sticker shock". Have we all hurled ourselves through Alice's looking glass? It makes no sense. Obama still claims that he doesn't take money from oil companies and other corp. interests, which has been widely debunked. (See factcheck.org and opensecrets.org for the details.) He also supported the Cheney energy bill in 2005, which was larded with subsidies for the oil companies. (Clinton opposed the bill.) Anyone who seriously researches this candidate will find that it's not the little people, by and large, who are behind his candidacy. And his record-breaking quarter billion dollars in contributions is not the result of "new politics", but rather the same old corrupt establishment using him as its pretty face. For more on how the election is being manipulated behind the scenes, see the article published at thecityedition.com. Here's a direct.

http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html