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Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus

But it's not just the dismal scientists she is disavowing with her charges of oil market manipulation.
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  • Monday, May 5, 2008 11:38 AM

    moving demand in the wrong direction

    I have to say that Obama does not go far enough. It shouldn't be sufficient to simply oppose this stupid tax holiday; he needs to come up with an alternate means of lowering transportation costs. As far as I can tell, the only realistic means of doing this in the short term is mass transit, in particular buses. For those who can use buses the benefit is obvious but for the rest, who cannot use buses for whatever reason, mass transit has the benefit of reducing demand for gasoline - lowering the price.

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