“We’ve been going at a pretty fast clip. I intend to take the weekend off and I’m going to take my wife out on a date. I hope to go on a bike ride with my kids,” Mr. Obama said."

Anyhow, I know many people who in the past two weeks have switched their affiliations from Clinton to Obama because of this single issue.

http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2008/04/truckers-call-for-cap-on-fuel-prices.html

I wonder if highway workers get good health care? They certainly need it.

Still waiting for a substantive response.

Given that Weiner sandbagged CP with the promise of higher Federal gas taxes, he can not remain silent on this issue.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aP_1wrIyt1Nc

Mrs. Clinton said at a rally on Monday morning in Graham, N.C., that she would introduce legislation to impose a windfall-profits tax on oil companies and use the revenue to suspend the gasoline tax temporarily.

And of course the oil companies aren't going to raise their prices to make up for those taxes. Here's a nickel for you to replace the one I just took out of your pocket. Don't you want to vote for me?

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers emails First Read, "Sen. McCain believes that general revenue transfers should be made to offset the impact on the transportation fund."

Fuck that. I'm not having my general taxes subsidize some North Carolina drivers.

If Obama does win the nomination, when the general election rolls around McCain's gas tax suspension would have been over!

If gas tax "holiday" comes to pass, I'd bet it'd be an endless summer. No one's going to move to bring the gas tax back in an election season.

No on gas tax costs Obama a handful of swing voters. Others he wasn't getting anyway

But ddartley's sentiment "I have always hoped for Obama to win the 08 nomination.", jeesh. I'm afraid is not good enough for me. He has to actually win the fucking election. If he is not going to, I'll take Clinton. Supporting a principled loser is not an option in this election.

McCain is far the worst despite what his "base" in the press thinks. For many reasons, from war and torture to transit. But this stuff is entirely predictable and his positions have been horrible over the years coming as he does from the gas powered flatlands. He has fought AMTRAK for decades from when Tom Downs had the temerity to ask for $0.02 per gallon of the gas tax for AMTRAK. Had that money been provide back then AMTRAK would be expanding and improving service not laying people off, and who would have really been worse for it.

It has been a wonderful opportunity for him to distinguish himself from Clinton, finally something of substance besides the war. He could use it to counterpoint a lot of arguments linking foreign policy, environmental policy, labor policy and economic policy. I hope he does and I hope it works.

But really this falls into the category of his campaign thinking a lot of the electorate, especially the new voters just signing up in this election cycle. I don't share his optimistic view of the electorate and their good angels. If he loses NC because of the NASCAR dads, he will be in worse shape and so will we.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_home_page.html

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90CUR1O0&show_article=1

If Obama does win the nomination, when the general election rolls around McCain's gas tax suspension would have been over!

So Obama could hammer him on that -- his energy policy would have expired, and "you'd be no better off than before right now, just like you are worse off after 20 years of pandering to some people's desire for the cheap & easy."

McCain usually doesn't go in for this kind of BS, which is why the pols show him competitive, even in NYC, when Republicans overall are about as popular as they were in 1932. That's why I don't think it was "shrewd." J6P isn't as clueless everywhere as in NY.

Agreed.

I can't see the ad, but I hope it mentions that gasoline prices are up from $1.50 to $4.00, and the solution is to cut transportation investment by giving you back 18 cents.

He really ought to make hay with this, not back away, because "gas tax cut" and "windfall profits" and "gouging" have been repeated over and over. Where has it got us?