Thread: Obama narrows Clinton superdelegate lead to 2
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Old 05-18-2008, 02:32 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Here's an interesting observation on how useless the lifting of the gas tax would be:

The US federal gas tax is 18 cents per gallon.

On May 5th the average price of gas was @ 3.61/gal
U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices

Yesterday it hit $3.79/gal
Gas strikes 10th straight record high at $3.787 a gallon - May. 17, 2008

Suppose the gas tax holiday Clinton and McCain have been promoting was implemented on May 5th, gas would have dropped to $3.43/gal. If the rise in fuel prices didn't change in this alternate reality, yesterday we would have seen the avg. price @ $3.61/gal, an 18 cent increase in 12 days.

Some holiday, my Christmas breaks during the school year lasted longer than this.
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