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	<title><![CDATA[The Gas Tax 'Holiday' Shell Game]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-ritz/the-gas-tax-holiday-shell_b_100006.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain have challenged Senator Barack Obama over his refusal to support their proposal that would suspend the .18 Federal gas tax for three months this summer. </p>

<p>The problem?</p>

<p>A near-unanimous chorus of protests from experts, economists and environmentalists, all of whom support Senator Obama's position that the 'holiday' would net less than thirty cents a day for consumers -- if there is any net at all -- since, historically, oil companies have absorbed the savings without...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-05-12T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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