Holiday Gas Prices
Remember last week when the headlines read, “Prices rise as holiday looms?”
All I know is that I was paying .25 less per gallon this weekend.
A few weeks ago, there was a bipartisan proposal by “junior” members of the Senate to provide direct relief at the gas pump. We know where that proposal went.
“Democrats pressed their own ideas, including a proposal by Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, for a 60-day suspension on the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal tax on gasoline and 24-cent diesel tax.
“It is direct relief at the pump,” Mr. Menendez said.
Some Republicans, including Mr. Thune, have also endorsed a suspension of those taxes.”
Why would a bipartisan coalition of “senior” Senators smack down such a proposal?
Why would some of these Senators propose a more complicated $100.00 rebate?
Do you think that the members of that exclusive club called the U.S. Senate do not want us common folk to see the “real” price of gasoline?
Just wondering.
-- Oak Leaf