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Do you support the gas tax holiday being pushed by Clinton and McCain?

No more than I support the economic stimulus package, which is to say, not at all.

The reason gas costs so much has nothing to do with the gas tax, and everything to do with the oil companies, which continue to post record profits.  Not gross incomes.  Profits.  It's time to change, and the best way to get most of us, myself included, to support transportation options that are less harmful to the environment, is to put the cost of gas up out of reach.

The gas tax supports things like road repairs.  It's just one of the reasons not *every* road in this country is a toll road, and it's one of the very, very few ways that projects like road repairs get funded.  It needs to stay, because roads need to be built and maintained, and also because there's absolutely no guarantee whatsoever that the oil companies will drop the price.  We could very, very easily end up paying the equivalent of the gas tax in straight profits.