{"id":437,"date":"2008-05-01T09:16:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2008-05-01T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:16:38","slug":"gas-tax-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Gas Tax Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Friedman of the New York Times<\/em><\/a> on the gas tax proposals:<\/p>\n

The McCain-Clinton gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today: \u201cMaximize demand, minimize supply and buy the rest from the people who hate us the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good for Barack Obama for resisting this shameful pandering…The McCain-Clinton proposal is a reminder to me that the biggest energy crisis we have in our country today is the energy to be serious \u2014 the energy to do big things in a sustained, focused and intelligent way. We are in the midst of a national political brownout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Krugman – whose loathing for Barack Obama is one of the mysteries of this campaign – must have had some trouble writing these lines<\/a>:<\/p>\n

John McCain has a really bad idea on gasoline, Hillary Clinton is emulating him (but with a twist that makes her plan pointless rather than evil), and Barack Obama, to his credit, says no…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh wait – but he can hedge a bit. Krugman wouldn’t want anyone to think he might actually consider Obama an acceptable candidate because of the vast policy differences they have (a.k.a. two minor ones that have led to about a dozen columns of polemic attacks):<\/p>\n

Just to be clear: I don\u2019t regard this as a major issue. It\u2019s a one-time thing, not a matter of principle, especially because everyone knows the gas-tax holiday isn\u2019t actually going to happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama’s seeking to make some political hay out of this. Once again, he’s betting the American people will pay enough attention to what’s going on to give him credit for doing the right thing.<\/p>\n

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Tom Friedman of the New York Times on the gas tax proposals: The McCain-Clinton gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today: \u201cMaximize demand, minimize supply and buy the rest from the people who hate us the most.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,45,4,43,44],"tags":[229,227,148,228],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","category-the-clintons","category-videos","tag-gas-tax-holiday","tag-paul-krugman","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tom-friedman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-73","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}