Suspending the gas tax

[davidinalameda]

I'm really curious to see how many people think that this is a good idea

Maybe I'm being an elitist but I for one don't think that the government should be encouraging people to drive more

I believe that we should be encouraging people to spend their money in their communities

I'm sure that most people have pretty decent vacation spots fairly close to them.

[shraby]

1. It's a bust because the gas tax is what is supposed

to pay for highway maintenance. If there is no gas tax, there is no highway money. States may be forced to raise the tax to cover highway maintenance costs. Zero sum game. Citizens lose both ways.

[tbyg52]

2. It's stupid, it's pandering, it's elitist (in that those touting it obviously think we're idiots).

And it probably wouldn't lower the price at the pump anyway - oil companies are quite capable of seeing it as an opportunity to jack up prices further.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I hope the idea never gets that far.

What a total digrace - encourage more wasteful driving to save a $20 bill.

[DJ13]

4. Im not against people driving more, but I am against pandering with a quick fix

....which fails to address the very serious problems for our economy these high oil prices are responsible for.

Gas has already gone up .60 in the last month, eliminating .18 now aint going to solve anything.

[thoughtcrime1984]

5. It's an awful idea, and most reasonable people will see it as such. nt

[DAGDA56]

6. If I were a retailer, and somebody said...

...you can cut your price, and the government will pay for it, I would jump at the chance! I might even raise the price a little bit, and still increase my sales volume. A no-lose situation...for the oil companies.

[housewolf]

7. It's nothing more than a political tool in an election year

Memorial Day Weekend is a short 3 weeks away from now. Nothing has been introduced in Congress. Congress goes out on their recess sometime the week before. It's a hallucination to thing that Congress would get something written, passed and passed by the president in less than 3 weeks. Does anyone really thing that Congress would enact a "windfall profits" tax against the oil companies in such a short time? Or that GWB would allow such a thing to go through?

It's not gonna happen, it's just not gonna happen. And continuing to talk about it is nothing more than political posturing and pandering. Promoting a popular idea that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being enacted. Flagrant manipulation of the electorate.

[whistle]

8. This makes absolutely NO ECONOMIC SENSE as the Federal Government

...forfiets $9.0 billion in gas tax revenues which are automatically earmarked for ongoing highway and road maintenance throughout the country. Construction and repair type jobs are suspended which our highway transportation systems are further neglected. More BushCo reTHUGlicon nonsense