Hillary Clinton and NC Gov. Mike Easley, photo credits: API’ve lived about 800 miles from my hometown for many years. Recently I received an invitation to a family reunion to be held this July at a small-town park only a few miles from where I was born. Thanks to the price of gas, whether I drive or take a plane, it’s going to cost a lot more than it used to, and I’ll have to budget carefully in order to make the trip. I can’t help wondering how many of my relatives who live out of state will be forced to skip this year’s family get-together.
Like Barack Obama, you might think that a gas tax holiday for the summer won’t make any difference, but for many of us a reduction of a few cents per gallon of gas might be the deciding factor in whether or not we show up at the family reunion, take our kids to see Disney World, or maybe even accompany a son or daughter to visit a prospective college campus.
Obama has been dissing Hillary Clinton’s proposal to rescind the gas tax for the summer and make up the loss in revenue with an excess profits tax on the oil companies. Obama apparently can’t relate to the problems faced by those in the middle and low-income brackets. But Clinton gets how families have their backs to the wall financially. That’s why she supports the gas tax holiday to give Americans an immediate break, while at the same time offering long-term energy proposals and bold solutions for our ailing economy.
Hillary Clinton cares.
See Hillary Clinton’s new ad on the gas tax holiday.
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