So, Bill Clinton increased the gas tax by 5 cents a gallon 15 years ago. Now Hillary wants a 90 day

[Johnny__Motown]

Holiday from the approx. 18 cent a gallon tax we now have.



Interesting... very interesting...



but not funny

[dsc]

1. when gas

was less than 1/3 the cost it is now and the deficit was larger, as a percent of GDP, than it is now. Incidently, he actually asked for a carbon tax but had to settle for a gas tax. Some of us remember the 1990's so please, either read a book, or don't post about the 1990's.

[peoli]

2. Oh yeah, that was when gas was $1.00. I remember that.

[texastoast]

3. The lowest price I paid at the pump was $.19

:cry:

I'm not THAT old.

The in 1973-1974, OPEC decided that, hmm, they would like some of their money. So it went up from $.25 a gallon to $.50. God forbid that the oil companies would share anything they were used to raking in. People were PISSED.

And it took it another TEN YEARS to double again.

Then, in 1997, I paid $.82 a gallon. EIGHTY-TWO CENTS 11 years ago. Of course, a lot of mid-management oil and gas guys couldn't get a job in the industry.

So in the last 11 years, we've gone from $.82 (actually, I bought it lower than that during that period) to quadruple under shrubbie.

Mission accomplished? I think so.

[Johnny__Motown]

5. I started driving in '79 and I don't remember it being lower than 59.9/gal. but maybe it is just me

I do remember when it hit one dollar a gallon.... it was a shock

[Johnny__Motown]

4. So you are now for repealing that tax? My point is she is being hypocritical.. again

[splat]

7. Your point makes no sense

That was then, it wasn't her, and it's a temporary suspension to help people in the face of skyrocketing prices.

Nothing holds up.

[annie1]

6. i wanted that carbon tax so badly. i remember that. i still talk about it. :D

[OzarkDem]

8. Wholesale gas tax, not retail

and it was at a time when prices were low and competition high.