Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Energy

National Poll: Americans Expect Gas Prices to Rise More

By Ben Fried | May 27, 2008 | 20 Comments

Fifteen Percent Live Near Convenient Transit Options By a margin greater than four to one, Americans think the price of gas is more likely to hit $5 per gallon than drop to $3 per gallon, according to poll results released last week by Survey USA. With a rash of stories about how drivers are changing […]

Q Poll Finds Americans Opposed to Gas Tax “Holiday”

By Brad Aaron | May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

For what it’s worth, a Quinnipiac poll released today again shows that Americans aren’t buying into the Clinton-McCain gas tax "holiday" gimmick. By a 49 – 41 percent margin, American voters say eliminating the federal gas tax for the summer is a bad idea… Republicans split 45 – 46 percent on the gas tax ‘holiday,’ […]

Electeds Go to the Mat for Cheap Gas

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2008 | 7 Comments

Desperate to look as if they’re responding to motorists complaints and prayers, state and federal electeds continue to scramble for a quick fix to ever-rising gas prices. In Albany, Senate Republicans have adopted the state gas tax "holiday" as their issue of the moment. Since the largely-ridiculed measure is going nowhere in the Assembly, Joe […]

Mixed Messages From Critic of NY Gas Tax Holiday

By Ben Fried | May 8, 2008 | 8 Comments

Following the lead of John McCain and Hillary Clinton, the State Senate voted yesterday to suspend New York’s gas tax for the summer. The move was largely symbolic, as the governor and Assembly speaker have both indicated they won’t support the bill. Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat from Manhattan, immediately issued a statement condemning the […]

Delaware Senator Dares to Utter the Word “Transit”

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2008 | 18 Comments

Even as the price of gas turns into a hot-button campaign issue, the presidential candidates are studiously avoiding the "T" word — transit — for the most part. But the notion of driving less and riding more is bubbling up, even in the corridors of Congress. We turn to Delaware Senator Thomas Carper, who made […]

Clinton Camp May Rethink Gas Tax Strategy

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2008 | 13 Comments

With a big loss in North Carolina and a razor-thin victory in Indiana, the Times reports that Senator Hillary Clinton’s advisers are expected to reconsider her campaign strategy for upcoming Democratic primaries — specifically, whether to continue pushing for a federal gas tax cut. Clinton advisers also said that the candidates and her team would […]

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