you want a gas price holiday?
I am going “there” to let you know how I feel about all this talk from Hillary Clinton and John McCain about a gas tax holiday. I think it’s ridiculous. Yep. I went there.
We are within 24 hours of voting in the primary elections, and for the first time in ages, NC has an opinion that the entire nation actually cares to hear. When’s the last time that happened, eh?
What I think much of the US fails to know about NC is that we are an incredibly complex little state. A state that is much bigger than people give us credit for, with a tremendous population boom that has no end in sight.
On top of our tremendously growing population, we are a diverse people, mixed heavily of all different nationalities, backgrounds, religions and socio-economic standings.
We have farmers fighting for their due credit, respect and compensation. We have growing energy concerns and a couple major nuclear plants. We have the hub of technology and education that is the Triangle and the hub of finance that is the Charlotte Metropolitan area. We have a dying furniture and textile industry, leaving many babyboomers without job stability or adequate retirement. We have tremendous transportation issues, from whether and how to create efficient mass transit, to making roads safer for bicyclers, to severe droughts and infrastructure issues for such growth, to housing and building and bridge concerns, to reducing emissions and commute times for our residents.
And those are just tidbits of all that NC is but has yet to be fully recognized for.
After hearing a variety of arguments in many directions, I do not see how having a gas tax holiday (if they could even get congress and the President to back it) is helping working-class Americans, as so many NC residents are. Don’t bother thinking I am also “out of touch” or “elitist”. I myself am from two working-class American families that have worked far too hard to have earned as little as they do.
I found this clip on 2sides2ron that really highlights why I think that supply and demand are all the evidence we need to see that a gas tax holiday is a short-term relief for a large-scale problem… and in reality, the bandage will only make the problem worse.
So get out there tomorrow and VOTE, no matter whether you agree with me or not… or don’t complain. Don’t complain about immigration. Don’t complain about our factories closing down and getting shipped overseas. And don’t complain about how much you are paying at the pump.
[...] on a disaster if we don’t demand more from our government systems now. And I am not speaking of gas tax holidays or drilling more oil reserves, because, frankly, I see those as superficial gimmicks and lack of [...]