In response to Senator Clinton and Senator McCain's recent calls for a gas tax "holiday," former Clinton Energy Secretary Federico Peña released the following statement today:
Today we're seeing another example of Washington politics at its worst. Senator Clinton is running TV ads and launching repeated attacks on Barack Obama for not supporting the gas tax holiday she's supporting, but today her own aides told the Washington Post that they know that this is a questionable plan and that they are using it to make it appear they're against big oil. The Clinton gas tax gimmick does little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and will actually increase oil prices. It is the kind of pandering that insults people's intelligence. With energy prices skyrocketing, we're looking for real solutions—not political posturing to get elected.
Barack Obama knows that a gas tax holiday would save the average family only about 30 cents a day. It's designed to win elections, not fix our energy problems. Here's Barack speaking about the issue at a Town Hall meeting in North Carolina:
To really solve our energy problems, Barack believes we have to stand up to oil companies and end oil market manipulations, and we must invest more in long-term solutions like alternative energy and increasing mileage standards for cars and trucks. And Obama is the only candidate who has a plan to provide real and permanent tax relief including a broad-based tax cut for the middle class — saving the average family one thousand dollars a year.
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