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Yeah that’s a gas tax. In 2010, America consumed 138,496,176,000 gallons of gas. If a $1/gallon failed utterly to reduce our gasoline use, it would at least raise something like $138.496176 billion every year.
Archive for the ‘Gas tax holiday’ Category
April 15th, 2011
May 4th, 2008
Category: Gas tax holiday
Of course experts sometimes get things wrong. But a politician who breaks with the expert consensus on an issue has an obligation to explain why and how the experts are wrong. Calling expertise “elitism” is a slimy ploy, and we’ve had almost eight years of seeing how well it works in real life.
May 3rd, 2008
Category: Gas tax holiday
The gas tax holiday won’t help consumers, even a tiny bit, unless the oil companies decide to pass it along in lower prices. Obama asks, “Does anyone here really trust the oil companies?”
April 30th, 2008
Category: Gas tax holiday
Everyone hates the McClinton proposal, and some mainstream outlets are abandoning “he said/she said” to report that the gas tax holiday is a policy loser.
April 30th, 2008
Category: Energy and Environment, Gas tax holiday
Obama’s anti-gas-tax-holiday TV spot is up. Effective, but not very accurate.
