Friends of the Earth Action endorses Obama for President

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Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation’s next president.

“We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment,” said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. “The ‘gas tax holiday’ debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won’t ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president.”

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Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

[GaryC 7]

Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation’s next president.

“We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment,” said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. “The ‘gas tax holiday’ debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won’t ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president.”

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Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation’s next president.

“We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment,” said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. “The ‘gas tax holiday’ debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won’t ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president.”

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Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

Gary, when you really take an honest look at it, the McCain / Clinton "gas tax holiday" proposal is the worst kind of useless election time pandering there is. It would be less than $30.00 worth of savings on average - probably not even that much. Both McCain and Clinton should be ashamed of themselves to think that Americans are dumb enough to actually fall for this nonsense.

[Dan J 277]

Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation's next president.

"We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won't ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president."

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Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

The element that has the largest effect on gas prices currently is a weak dollar, and speculation driven by a weak dollar.

A gas tax holiday would have no effect. The decrease in price would increase demand. Driving the price back up. It would result in billions less to pay for roads.

[GaryC 7]

Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation's next president.

"We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won't ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president."

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Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

The element that has the largest effect on gas prices currently is a weak dollar, and speculation driven by a weak dollar.

A gas tax holiday would have no effect. The decrease in price would increase demand. Driving the price back up. It would result in billions less to pay for roads.

So you want higher prices then?

[Dan J 277]

Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation's next president.

"We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won't ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president."

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Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

The element that has the largest effect on gas prices currently is a weak dollar, and speculation driven by a weak dollar.

A gas tax holiday would have no effect. The decrease in price would increase demand. Driving the price back up. It would result in billions less to pay for roads.

So you want higher prices then?

Apperently you didnt read what i just said.

[GaryC 7]

Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation's next president.

"We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won't ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president."

...

Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

The element that has the largest effect on gas prices currently is a weak dollar, and speculation driven by a weak dollar.

A gas tax holiday would have no effect. The decrease in price would increase demand. Driving the price back up. It would result in billions less to pay for roads.

So you want higher prices then?

Apperently you didnt read what i just said.

I read it. Your wrong though. By your logic there is nothing we can do to bring the price down. Your saying that a decrease in cost will always drive the price back up. It's just more of the liberal BS. It's the same reason the libs will not let us drill our own oil. We could be drilling for oil in Alaska and off the coasts of FL and CA but they will not let us. Why? Not because of environmental concerns as a result of the drilling. It's because they want the price to go up so they can push their agenda.

Edited May 3, 2008 by GaryC

[Dan J 277]

Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation's next president.

"We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won't ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president."

...

Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

The element that has the largest effect on gas prices currently is a weak dollar, and speculation driven by a weak dollar.

A gas tax holiday would have no effect. The decrease in price would increase demand. Driving the price back up. It would result in billions less to pay for roads.

So you want higher prices then?

Apperently you didnt read what i just said.

I read it. Your wrong though. By your logic there is nothing we can do to bring the price down. Your saying that a decrease in cost will always drive the price back up. It's just more of the liberal BS. It's the same reason the libs will not let us drill our own oil. We could be drilling for oil in Alaska and off the coasts of FL and CA but they will not let us. Why? Not because of environmental concerns as a result of the drilling. It's because they want the price to go up so they can push their agenda.

Repealing a tax will have little or no effect, other than alot less money available for roads.

Increasing supply, it might have an effect in 3-5 years. If you can increase supply faster than demand increases.

Increase the value of the dollar, will have a large effect as it will reduce speculation on the price of oil. But this means we have to stop borrowing money for Iraq.

[GaryC 7]

[Dan J 277]

Some people would rather blame liberals for oil prices rather than own up to the economic cost of war.

[GaryC 7]

Some people would rather blame liberals for oil prices rather than own up to the economic cost of war.

And some people would rather blame Bush than face up to the fact we could be producing more of our own energy.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I like the fact he doesn't sanction this retarded "gas tax holiday"

If he stands up to ethanol subsidies (as McCain is doing), that would be great

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Economists have a different take: They say the oil companies may end up the biggest beneficiaries, while the aid to families wouldn't be enough to buy a $35 backpack.

The trouble with the plan, they say, is that oil prices are rising because of low supplies, and companies will continue to charge the average $3.60 a gallon and just pocket the money that would have gone to federal taxes.

"That's $10 billion, and it's going into the pockets of oil refiners,'' said Leonard Burman of the Tax Policy Center in Washington. "The last time I checked, they didn't need it.''

Supplies are "being cleared at the current price,'' said Donald Parsons, an economics professor at George Washington University in Washington. "If you take away the tax, you'll have the same number of consumers willing to buy the gas at the same total price.''

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"I don't know any prominent economist who favors this McCain-Clinton proposal,'' Greg Mankiw, former chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers and author of a bestselling economics text, said on his blog.

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Economists say that while the populist proposals appeal to consumers struggling to make ends meet, the voters will be disappointed when the moves don't work.

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If the entire federal tax cut passed through to the price at the pump, the cost of filling up a 20-gallon tank would fall $3.68 to $68.72. Ethan Harris, chief U.S. economist at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., said families would save only about $18 a month. Burman estimated the total savings from Memorial Day to Labor Day at $28.

"Even if it worked, it would be chump change,'' he said.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the proposal was "about the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time from an economic point of view.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...NY&refer=us

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"It's basic economics," said Leonard Burman, director of the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan thinktank. "Gas is always in very short supply during the summer, which is why prices go up. In order to reduce the price, you would have to increase supply, but that is difficult over the short term, because the refineries cannot add capacity."

James Hamilton, professor of economics at the University of California at San Diego, said that most of the benefits from a temporary tax moratorium would likely go to producers rather than consumers. He said that states that suspend gas taxes are able to respond to rising demand more efficiently than the country as a whole, because gasoline supplies can be easily moved from one state to another.

"Prices would certainly rise to the market-clearing level," said Hamilton. "I would expect the price [of gas] to go back to very close to where it was before [the tax cut], in which case consumers would not see any benefit."

Another economist, Jeffrey Perloff, of UC-Berkeley, agreed that a federal tax moratorium would likely have less impact on consumer gas prices than a state moratorium. He said his models showed that a suspension of the 18.4-cent federal tax on gasoline would likely result in a temporary 9- to 12-cent reduction in the cost of a gallon of gas to the consumer, with the remainder of the reduction coming in wholesale prices.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checke...gas_prices.html

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Friends of the Earth Action, a national environmental group based in Washington, D.C., announced today that it is endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be the nation’s next president.

“We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment,” said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. “The ‘gas tax holiday’ debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won’t ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president.”

...

Instead of signing onto this gimmick, Obama has called for long-term solutions that would limit oil consumption by requiring cars to be more fuel efficient and expanding transportation options including passenger rail.

http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease....release_KEY=367

The real reason they like Obama's stand is because they don't want lower gas prices. They want higher gas prices in an attempt to force us to do what they want. The really don't care about the little guy that has to pay more and more just to get to work. Bastards.

Gary, when you really take an honest look at it, the McCain / Clinton "gas tax holiday" proposal is the worst kind of useless election time pandering there is. It would be less than $30.00 worth of savings on average - probably not even that much. Both McCain and Clinton should be ashamed of themselves to think that Americans are dumb enough to actually fall for this nonsense.

Not even a free fill-up on most fuel-saving cars these days. Bravo.