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Dick Cheney's gas tax plan
You've heard the one about John Kerry's "support" of a 50 cent a gallon gas tax -- it's the subject of a Bush-Cheney ad even though it was part of a bill Kerry didn't even vote for. Today, the New York Times gives us one more reason to believe Bush-Cheney is being hypocritical on this gas tax charge against Kerry. It turns out that none other than then-Wyoming

Congressman Dick Cheney introduced legislation in 1986 to create "a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil, and ultimately the price of gasoline paid by drivers, to soar by billions of dollars per year," the paper says.

"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States," Cheney said then, shortly after introducing the legislation.

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What Cheney Said About It: "Let Us Rid Ourselves of The Fiction That Low Oil Prices Are Somehow Good for the United States."

In October 1986, then Representative Cheney introduced legislation to create a new import tax that would have increased the price of oil and ultimately the price of gasoline by $1.2 trillion, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service, in coordination with staffers from the Senate Energy Committee. (Energy Security Policy Act of 1986, H.R.5667, introduced 10/9/86, 99th Congress 2nd Session, 132 Cong Rec E 1350, Vol. 132, No. 139; Inside Energy/with Federal Lands, 10/13/86; New York Times, 4/6/04)

http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/K/2/pub2107.html

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