Posted AT 12:48 AM EST on 07/06/08
A one-step plan to slash gas prices
Of all the reasons to cheer Hillary Clinton's defeat, here's one more: She was responsible for one of the single dumbest ideas of the U.S. presidential campaign. Her “summertime gas tax holiday” had the ring of a Kmart promotion, and was about as thoughtful.
America has a fuel consumption problem. The U.S., with less than one-twentieth of the world's population, still burns nearly one-quarter of its daily oil production.
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