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Congress Considers Gas Tax Holiday

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Jared Halpern, Reporter
@ May 27, 2008 5:02 AM
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The Memorial Day drive is over, and still gas prices inch closer to $4 a gallon on the First Coast. Local Republican Congressman Ander Crenshaw is pushing a plan to suspend the federal gas tax over the summer.

"Right now it's tough to pass things through Congress," Crenshaw tells WOKV. "There are people that don't want to do it. If it doesn't happen in the next 30 days, it won't happen at all."

Crenshaw compares a short-lived gas tax break to the stimulus rebate checks recently sent out. A short-term answer providing temporary relief.

State lawmakers rejected Governor Charlie Crist's gas tax holiday proposal earlier this month. The plan would have saved drivers between 10 and 20 cents a gallon for the month of July.

"But you also would have cancelled out a lot of the projects that are needed right now such as road construction to purge the economy again by creating jobs and selling concrete," GOP representative Stan Jordan said.

Both Jordan and Crenshaw believe seeking long-term oil dependency is the only way gas prices will fall in a meaningful way.

"America has to become energy independent," Crenshaw said. "We have to have our own sources of energy, our own sources of oil. Until we do that we're going to continue to pay for it at the pump."



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