President Joe Biden asked Congress to suspend the federal per-gallon gas tax Wednesday, a move former President Barack Obama criticized sharply while campaigning in 2008.
Biden asked legislators to pause the federal tax for three months to relieve the pressure of rising gas prices, according to a Wednesday statement from the White House. [bold, links added]
The measure is unlikely to make it through Congress, according to Politico.
In 2008, Obama called federal gas tax suspensions “gimmicks” during a campaign speech.
“For us to suggest that 30 cents a day for three months is real relief, that that’s a real energy policy, means that we are not tackling the problem that has to be tackled.”
The federal per-gallon excise tax for regular gas is 18 cents, and 24 cents per-gallon of diesel, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Biden’s latest attempt to stave off a developing energy crisis comes as his administration spars with the fossil fuel industry and continues to stonewall new federal oil and gas leasing.
Biden also called on state governors and officials to suspend their excise taxes on gas.
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I figure I will save $5-6 on gas expenses for my upcoming vacation. Not quite enough to buy a Mackinaw City Pastie. What a joke of an idiot this bum is.
Obama also cut off the Coal Mines to appease the Eco-Freaks Biden dose the dame Clinton did to the Democrat Party has become bigger enemy then the Terrorists Biden is Proof of that and the M.S. Media covers up for them
No surprise that Biden would be reaching for straws like this. So cutting the cost of a gallon of gasoline by the 18 cents sales tax when the cost of said gallon is around $5. Yeah, that’s gonna make a big dent in the cost of filling gas tanks! This is almost as dumb as the drawing down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.