Mauldin sees a gas tax as a push toward those cleaner domestic energy sources.
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Well, something else McCain has suggested is a gas tax holiday from the federal gas tax.
George Voinovich (R-OH) suggested that Congress not only continue the gas tax but raise it.
Instead of raising energy prices, the point of the gas tax should be to raise revenues.
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Sperling decided that if Clinton was vulnerable on anything, it was the gas tax.
But eliminating oil and gas tax breaks is an appropriate base-broadening measure that should be endorsed.
All of which brings us back to the idea of rolling back the federal gas tax.
But excise taxes like the gas tax aren't the only place for taxes to be secreted away.
The gas tax increase, which is being phased in, will total 8.5 cents a gallon by 2012.
By 2003 revenue from this so-called Gore Tax could be twice that of the federal gas tax.
The gas tax itself is unpopular, so Democrats are betting on some public support for killing it.
For instance, while they did suggest a 15-cent-a-gallon gas tax hike, they avoided any major new energy tax.
It was 'no' on gas tax relief that can help -- this summer -- families that are hurting.
He is against the gas tax and for increased domestic oil drilling, especially if it leads to energy independence.
State gas tax holiday proposals, mirroring Republican presidential candidate John McCain's proposed summer federal gas tax holiday, have gone nowhere.
The gas tax has not increased since 1993, and its buying power, accounting for inflation, is now only 11 cents.
The federal gas tax is not pumping (sorry) enough money into the system to pay for the federal spending on highways.
Measures like a gas tax would work best if they were part of a national energy plan that Americans could understand.
So far, lawmakers favor less than half as much in revenue and want to raise it largely through a higher gas tax.
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Senator HILLARY CLINTON (Democrat, New York): I would immediately lower gas prices by temporarily suspending the gas tax for consumers and businesses.
Specifically, two misguided tax proposals would increase oil and gas tax burdens in the states and double-tax the profits they earn overseas.
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For now, the gas tax is the main vehicle for infrastructure investment.
It claims that Senator Barack Obama flip-flopped on a gas tax holiday.
Now that cars are so much more fuel-efficient, she explained, the gas tax isn't bringing in enough revenue to cover highway needs.
He opposes raising the gas tax so suggested Congress could either spend less on highways or cut other programs to offset the cost.
While raising the tax is politically unpopular, theoretically, raising the gas tax would fix crumbling highways, lower oil imports, and reduce carbon emissions.
Even as White House aides celebrated their tactical victory in the scuffle over the gas tax, Clinton admitted he would consider repealing it.
They both want to suspend, they say, suspend the 18 cent per gallon federal gas tax this summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
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