So they want to repeal the gas tax?

It just seems insane to me. We've already cut taxes at wartime. We're already putting a tax rebate out there that isn't even going to do what they think it's going to do. Now, we're looking to repeal the gas tax for a summer, taking even more money out of the coffers. What's in the Treasury Department vault right now, deposit bottles? Moths? Connie Chung's career?

And separate from the obviously horrible idea of taking money out of the pockets of the government while we've got a recession going on, why on Earth are we incentivizing driving and using gasoline? If the rising price of oil should be teaching us anything, it's that we need to find other ways to power our cars, get to work and make money for the people that sell the oil. And frankly, our skies and water could use a pollution break.

And then I read that Hillary Clinton wants the oil companies to pay for the gas tax for the summer, instead of repealing it altogether? First, good luck getting our President "Big Business" Bush to sign that bill. Secondly, the oil companies are turning $4B quarterly profits. You think they give a rat's ass how much gas costs? The first thing they'll do is turn around and pass their cost on the consumers.

It's just shocking sometimes how shortsighted our politicians can be. It's nice of them to want to try to put a little more money in my pocket. I appreciate it. Really. But why don't you guys take a minute and think just a little bit abstractly for a minute? Take my 25 cents a gallon and invest it in find actual alternative biofuels that don't require fossil fuels to produce. It's an investment that every person in the world should be willing to make.

Labels: Hillary Clinton, my high horse, politics