Hillary Clinton has spent the past eight days in Indiana and North Carolina trying to appeal to the regular folk by calling for a suspension of the gas tax, beginning Memorial Day.
Everyone who understands the subject says that, because supply is constrained by refinery capacity, demand will keep prices at the current level even if the tax is suspended -- and oil companies will get an extra 18 cents a gallon. But her advisers say it polls well, so they don't care what the experts think.
In Jeffersonville, Ind., last night, she challenged others in Congress to support her idea, pretending that it would hurt oil companies. From Fox:
“ 'Do they stand with the hard pressed Americans who are trying to pay their gas bills at the gas station, or do they once again stand with the oil companies?' she asked. Saying she’ll put the question to them soon in the form of legislation, Clinton said 'I want them to tell us, are they with us or against us when it comes to taking on the oil companies?' ”
The tax holiday is supposed to begin Memorial Day. Isn't it kind of unusual that she hasn't gotten around to submitting a bill yet?
Usually when legislators have even a semblance of seriousness about an idea, they write legislation. It's the traditional way of changing a law.