Also, how silly of me to think we can change the system, as she proposes to do with the gas holiday

How exactly does this "change the system"? The oil companies would merely boost the price of gasoline to compensate for the removal of the tax, and all of that money would flow to them instead of to helping repair our roads and bridges.

So I guess it would "change the system" in that it would take more valuable services away from working people and give that money to the billionaire elites of the oil industry.

And in this way it's of a kind with earlier Clinton Republican-lite policies, which shipped good paying jobs overseas by the millions while enriching multinational corporations and the elites who own and control them.

I think the biggest change we could make to our system would be to elect someone who hasn't been personally responsible for helping to screw this country up in the first place.

John McCain was the one who first proposed a gas tax holiday, putting the difference on our children's credit card. But all the pundits can talk about is how "Hillary's gas tax proposal" doesn't make sense.

We expect crazy ravings and idiotic pandering from senile Republican politicians - of course it passes by without much comment. It's surprising to see it coming from a Democrat, although given Hillary's history it's clear she's a "Democrat" in name only. When push comes to shove, she carries water for the wealthy Wall Street elite just as her husband did, just as any good Republican would.

Demand for gasoline has fallen, but the price of the commodity continues to rise due to speculative trading

Well, we don't fully know what's going on with oil trading, thanks to Hillary's husband, who signed into law legislation which makes the government virtually blind to the doings in the oil exchanges. The Clintons are a gift that just keeps on giving.

That having been said, while demand for gasoline may have fallen a smidge here in the US now that the price per gallon has more than doubled over the past few years, global demand continues to skyrocket. I know plenty of Americans think the United States is the entire planet, but the reality is the economies of many developing nations are booming - thanks in large part to the outsourcing of our manufacturing sector for the primary benefit of international elites - and their demand for resources is growing in kind. And since oil is a finite resource with a finite supply available in the market at any given moment, price rises are inevitable.

Which is another reason why a gas tax holiday is a stupid idea. If anything, we should be slowly raising gas taxes, both to encourage conservation and to get people used to an increasingly oil-scarce future in advance. Better to bring it on slowly so that people can adapt than wait for some shock - like another oil embargo, a war in the Middle East or civil upset in an oil producing state - that would result in chaos here in the US.

Those of you who are well enough off to scoff at the meager savings of Clinton's proposal, could you please send me $30? My address is 4225 E University Dr., Apt 25, Mesa, AZ 85205. Please inform your friends of my plight and do the Christian thing. Thank you.I am not being facetious.

Those in such dire financial straits they can't afford needed medicines or even the gasoline it takes to go fetch them might do well to consider that Hillary is part of the elite power structure that caused the loss of millions of high-paying manufacturing sector jobs over the past 30 years. Hillary was part of an administration which foisted the strong dollar policy on the American public for the benefit of our crooked financial services sector, at the expense of anybody who produces a tangible good of value for a living. The same administration passed legislation to ensure the oil commodity business is as opaque as possible, meaning we the people are blind to what the big oil companies and enemy states like Saudi Arabia are doing behind closed doors.

Now, after helping to rob the working man of his cake Hillary is offering the proles a few crumbs in the form of a pissant tax cut? Why, how magnanimous of Hillary Antoinette.

Can we break out the guillotines yet?

The fact that Obama doesn't appreciate this is just another example of his elitism and highlights yet again that he does not have the experience to lead a nation.

I'm sorry - maybe the working class wouldn't need a piddling tax cut on gas if Hillary and her horndog husband hadn't shipped millions of their freaking jobs overseas via NAFTA, free trade agreements with China, and 8 years of the strong dollar policy.

Talk about elitism.

Unless you have a lighting fixture that's really hard to reach, I'd stick with CFL's for now. LED bulbs are just starting to become practical for everyday use. There's bound to be a lot more development over the next 5 years, and the price is almost certain to decline substantially. There are also still color temperature issues with LED's that have already been largely resolved in CFL's. LED's are bound to get better over the next 5 years in that regard as well.