ELECTION 2008: Clinton to America - keep wasting that energy!
By Mary Anna Towler on May. 1st, 2008 at 7:23am 1 Comment
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.
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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Emmanuel Winner on May 4th, 2008
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.