The truth about the gas tax holiday, pt.2. An open letter to the Clinton campaign.

In an effort to get the word from Senator Clinton, I went to her website last night to try to find out more about her Gas Tax Holiday plan.

From the statement on her site:

Details of Hillary’s Plan
Enact a Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies to Pay for Temporarily Suspending the Gas Tax – Hillary will impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies and use the money to temporarily suspend the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gas tax and the 24.4 cent per gallon diesel tax during the upcoming peak summer driving months. Hillary will ensure that this relief is passed along to consumers by charging the Federal Trade Commission with conducting aggressive oversight. Unlike Senator McCain’s plan, Hillary’s plan will be fully paid for by taking away oil company profits through a windfall profits tax. This will ensure that the Highway Trust Fund is not affected at all by the gas tax suspension, and can continue to support critical repairs and maintenance for our infrastructure and highways. Suspending the gas tax will provide real, immediate assistance to American families and for our economy. Recent testimony before the House of Representatives by the American Trucking Association indicates that even small changes in price can have big impacts. Just a one-penny decrease in the price of diesel annualized over an entire year would save the trucking industry $391 million a year.

So I have a question. Does this mean that Senator Clinton currently has the support in the Congress to pass a Windfall Tax bill by Memorial Day, May 26th 2008? Or does this mean that she’s not going to have the Gas Tax Holiday until she can get that bill has passed? Or does this mean that she wants to suspend the tax, but find some way to pay for it somewhere down the road?

I emailed this question to the campaign and got this response.

Dear Friend,

Thank you for your message. I have received thousands of emails from people all over the country. Your comments are very important to me and I am excited that so many people are joining our conversation about how to change the direction of the country. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of comments, I am unable to respond to each email individually.

Please visit www.hillaryclinton.com to learn more about my views on the issues and to read the latest information about my campaign.

So i’ll just put it out here. Maybe some of her supporters can answer this for me.

~ by takinitback on May 1, 2008.