If the states voluntarily suspended their taxes for the same period, we would see an effect.
All Freepers should go to the website of the Trinity Church and write like if they were Obama’s voters.
Example : “I’m glad Senator Obama finally admitted how much he despised Rev. Wright and your crazy church. We don’t want to hear from you and your crazy pastor anymore.
Shut up and go back to your prayers”
The goal ? Get anger among the Trinity’s members toward Obama.
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We'd see a small effect for a short time, and then the price would go back up to the market price, which is what consumers are willing to pay for a gallon of gas.
When the price gets too high, gasoline inventories go up, and they drop prices. When the price is lower, they can't keep up with demand, so they raise prices. That's how the market works.
Reducing the cost of gasoline doesn't in itself have a lot of effect on the price, except for a short time period.
The cut in gas taxes would end up as profits for the oil companies, and we would still have to pay for the costs of maintaining roads, but it would be done through a more progressive tax on income rather than a use tax.
Oil companies would get a windfall generated by effectively lowering their costs, and we would not only pay the high price for gasoline, but we'd have to make up for the lost taxes in another way as well.
A temporary gas tax cut for the summer would screw taxpayers in the end.