May 1, 2008 at 7:23am
I guess it was predictable: Hillary Clinton has joined John McCain in pushing for a gas-tax holiday. She insists that it would help poor and working-class Americans save money. Some analysts disagree, saying that at best, the savings wouldn't be much - and that there's no guarantee that retailers won't keep prices at the same level and hang on to the money themselves.
A larger issue, of course, is that rising gas prices may at last force Americans to conserve. Clinton's and McCain's proposals - and the proposals of the Republicans in the New York State Legislature - encourage more consumption. And they'll worsen the financial problems facing the nation and the state.
Clinton is apparently clueless about the consumption problem, though. When she held a press conference yesterday to announce her tax-holiday proposal, she arrived in a pick-up truck - followed, according to last night's Lehrer NewsHour, by a fleet of 10 SUV's.
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Comments for "ELECTION 2008: Clinton to America - keep wasting that energy!" (1)
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Emmanuel Winner said on May. 04, 2008 at 11:06am
I knew Clinton was anti-environment and weak on energy issues when I heard her say in a speech in December that her policy on corporate pollution would be to auction off a "license to pollute" to corporations involved to increase federal revenues to help clean up the environment. I doubt there has been any suggestion so stupid made this campaign season - like asking the horse to buy the shovel while letting it poop all over the living room floor. But as to energy - hey, don't worry: as soon as Hillary nukes Iran we can have our licensed polluter corporations send in some illegal immigrant labor into the wasteland to drill for radioactive oil.
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