Gas prices hurt but tax holiday no solution: poll

[Career Prole]

Source: Yahoo News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sixty nine percent of Americans see gasoline prices as a serious problem for their families but only 41 percent favor a temporary repeal of the gasoline tax as proposed by presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton, a poll released on Thursday said.

In the Quinnipiac University Poll, 57 percent of respondents said they were cutting back on household spending because of high gas prices; 61 percent were driving less and 39 percent had changed summer vacation plans.

However, those surveyed consider a summer gas tax "holiday" a bad idea by 49 percent to 41 percent...

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[liberal N proud]

1. How long would that "holiday" actually last?

Maybe a week or two before the price sucked it up.

All at the cost of our infrastructure.

[sabbat hunter]

2. or how many gas companies

would just raise their prices effectively "absorbing" the savings for themselves, then when the tax holiday ends prices go up even more.

[mikeytherat]

3. 41% of people are short-sighted idiots.

A five-percent reduction in the price of gas, for 90 days, at the expense of our infrastructure. I am forced to conclude that most of that 41% has no idea that the Federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon (they must feel, since it is a TAX, it comprises 75% or more of the retail cost of gas).

mikey_the_rat