Letters to the Editor
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I'm sorry, this is a terribly flawed "analysis"
This article is quite absurd. A gas tax holiday IS a political gimmick. The sources of high gas prices come from major structural problems, including, obviously, the fact that we, and the world, consume far more petroleum than we can produce. Furthermore, we ought to be enacting measures to radically reduce the amount of petroleum we are consuming. Another obvious source of our problem is the collapsing dollar, fueled to a large degree by our massive deficit and low interest rates which we keep in place to stave off a recession, caused to a large extent by our abysmal management of the economy. If anything we ought to be looking to INCREASE the gas tax, or at the very least leave it in place. Even if eliminating the gas tax would result in a tiny drop in the price of gas, this will have little impact on the typical family and do NOTHING to address the serious structural problems we face. It's nothing more than political pandering that will not address the real issue whatsoever.