Here's the petition
Hillary Clinton recently fell in line with John McCain's Herbert Hoover-like plan to save our economy: a half a tank of gas for everyone! In a plan which I call the "Let them eat cake" plan, many project that we'd lose hundreds of thousands of jobs, 9 BILLION dollars, and, most of all, the gas companies would benefit the most. It's simple economics. The price of gas goes down. Demand goes up. Prices go up with it. Hillary Clinton wants to give gas companies the money that was going to go to hundreds of thousands of municipal workers, many of whom work in North Carolina and Indiana.
If you feel like you can stomach it, here's Hillary's idiotic argument. I give Indianans and North Carolinians more credit than this.
Here's a quote from a statement signed by 150 (yes, one hundred and fifty) economists.
As economists who study issues of energy policy, taxation, public finance, and budgeting, we write to indicate our opposition to this policy. There are several reasons for this opposition. First, research shows that waiving the gas tax would generate major profits for oil companies rather than significantly loweing prices for consumers. Second, it would encourage people to encourage people to keep people buying costly imported oil and do nothing to encourage conservation. Third, a tax holiday would provide very little relief to families feeling squeezed. Fourth, the gas tax suspension would threaten to increase the already record deficit in the coming year and reduce the amount of money going into the highways trust fund that maintains our infrastructure.
But Hillary doesn't have to listen to that. She's Hillary.
But these guys are just a bunch of Obama-loving kooks who probably went to Blaine. I mean, I scrolled through the list... Princeton? Isn't that, like, a 2-year college? Tufts? Is that even accredited? M.I.T? More like, Morons In Training!!! And they didn't ALL win the Nobel Prize. Only 3 of them did. And they're just a bunch of Obama lovers. That's probably why Clinton's ex-chief economic adviser in 1992 is on the list.
I hope the people of Indiana and North Carolina see this, rather than stupid commercials not based in fact. Whoever Hillary Clinton might pick as her running mate, it certainly isn't going to be rationality.