Obama Says McCain Has “Gall” for Criticisms over Gas Tax Holiday

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

sorry meant to say percent

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.

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)

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 .

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.

McCain’s philosophy for this election; promise, borrow and spend. If anyone ask any questions, lie till there is no tomorrow.

Triple the gas tax and invest the proceeds in alternative energy. Oil won’t last forever, so keeping it cheap ain’t doing anybody any favors. It is more of the same shortsighted spend your children’s oil cause you’ve already spent their money with record deficits.

I can understand this suggestion from McCain. He admits that he does not understand economics. But coming from Clinton, this is political pandering, pure and simple. You cannot repeal the laws of supply and demand any more than you can repeal the laws of physics. In the absence of an unlikely boost in supply, the only solution is to decrease demand, and there is no “quick fix” for that. It would be more productive to increase gas taxes, take our medicine once and for all, and find some rational use for the increased revenue. At least that way the inevitable increases in gas prices would result in money staying in the US rather than going to foreign oil producers.

Lower the Gas tax and the oil companies will find away to raise the price. So in the end we pay the same anyway until the tax relief expires. Then what? It is still a windfall for the oil companies.

If tax is halted then what happens to the workers that would normally be fixing roadways? Summer with the dry weather is the best and safest time for roadworkers to work and the roads I travel sure could use the help and we do not need any jobs lost because of shortsided views.
Also what happens to all the funds that the government has already commited to pay for projects that are already in the works? Are they halted too or will we face larger taxes come fall?

“That’s typical of how Washington works. There’s a problem: everybody’s upset about gas prices. Let’s find some short term, quick fix. That we can say we did something, even though we’re not really doing anything. Because if you actually took away the gas tax, what are the oil companies going to do? They’re gonna raise your gas by 5 cents. You’ll never see the savings. And then we pretend to do something.”
AWESOME! I love this argument – embodies what makes Obama different from McCain and how McClinton or McBush the same old dirty politics

Dumb idea, unfortunately, unless you also imposed price controls. The oil companies would very quickly increase the pump prices to eat up the reduction in price.

Yeah McCain that temporary 18 cent reduction will make all the difference to me, NOT. Last time I filled up gas cost $4.09, that’s a good buck more than it shou;ld. Not a friggin 18 cents.

These are nothing more than short term reductions for political purposes, onbc all this is over it is back to the same old, same old. I find hard to believe that people realy buy into this.
Tax cuts and universal healthcare, sounds like tax cuts and war. These things shouldn’t happen at the sametime.
We are very rapidly becoming a third world country. Unless America wakes up and begin to understand that we have to pay for the things we want, we will go further in debt weaking the dollar, well you know the rest.
Focus folks

whats 18 cents ,,,when there going to raise the gas price a dollor or more anyway…we need good roads..
obama is right,,,build more cars that take less gas,,,,,andy

Those who critize the McCain/Clinton gas-tax holiday and claim Obama has a better plan forget something. It is a TEMPORARY RELIEF plan-hence the HOLIDAY part. All of the candidates have long term ‘solutions’. Don’t forget that Obama receives plenty of oil money from petroleum industry just like many of his fellow politicians. Notice all the calls to eliminate subsidies to the oil companies from congress have pretty much fallen on deaf ears, wonder why? To call and critisize the the gas-tax holiday as an energy policy is just
pure Obama Propaganda from another hypocritical oil-enriched politician.

Obama’s remark that the “gas tax holiday” only amounts to the cost of a tank of gas – a tank of gas gets me to work every week, so I can earn $$$ to put back into the economy – oh and feed my family. If Obama doesn’t think $25 means anything to most folks, then he’s way off in another world – maybe he is too “elitist” for the “common folk”.

ReganFan:
McCain was opposed to the tax cuts because we were at war, he said our country has never cut taxes while we were at war and it made him sick…. Well we’re still at war and he’s pushing tax cuts… Flip Flopper… We’ll be seeing lot more of his flip flops when Hillary graciously bows out… And the Dems and the American public can focused on the double talking McCain…

This gas tax thing won’t help?!?! Speak for yourself. I’m just $25-$50 away from being totally out of debt. Not including the price of everything else spiraling out of control, the dollar worth nothing, and interest rates making saving not an option, this $25-$50 will get me that much closer to living the American Dream. Thank God for John McCain!!

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Elitist? Out of touch?Flip-flop on previous position on gas tax holiday? Experience teaches you a lot of things. If you voted to try it in your state, you SHOULD know that it is not the thing to try at the national level. CORRECT decision, Senator Obama.
Giving people a $25 or $50 break now that will cost them MORE in the very near future is not expected of a leader. Of the 3 senators making proposals, Obama is the only one who seems to care enough about the people and their long-term needs,to make the RIGHT change in his position on the subject. You have a pandering senator and an “I don’t know much about economics” senator. Looks like we are going to need someone who has that kind of experience and the wisdom and the audacity to say it is not the best decision for the people who need a REAL break.
BTW. gall and audacity are great words in this election cycle. And “weak” and “whip” do NOT apply to Senator Obama. Not by a long shot.