1.0 link 96785 <![CDATA[McCain reveals hypocrisy, cynicism with call for gas-tax holiday, energy budget freeze]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-romm/mccain-reveals-hypocrisy_b_96785.html Any remaining glimmer of hope that Senator John McCain might be the principled, non-cynical politician to transform our energy policy and avoid the dual calamaties of peak oil and climate catastrophe died today. The Associated Press reported that:
John McCain wants the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer ... aimed at stemming pain from the country's troubled economy....

To help people weather the downturn immediately, McCain was calling for Congress to institute...

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