Re:More free money from Gavin Newsom!!!!!

San Francisco CA

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Wouldn't have much affect, tell that to the families who have to decide whether to fill up their gas tank to drive to work or put food on the table. Maybe you have deep pockets and $75 or so savings a month doesn't matter but for tens of millions it does. There is no artificial shortages other than the Federal government regulating less production by preventing some the most productive tracts of land to produce oil & gas. Biden himself said as President he'd shut down oil production in the US and he's doing a good job of it, he says it's the price we have to pay for transitioning to renewable energy but that's decades away at best so he's forcing consumers to suffer. Why shouldn't oil producers get tax breaks their products keep the lights on and your Tesla charged. Farmers get tax breaks, milk producers too, all because they give us things we need. Senators get more money from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple than they ever got from Exxon Mobil and others. Your rationalizations are diatribes. The high tech companies above have gotten their monopolies virtually guaranteed for decades from Senators taking their campaign contributions. You want as I do lower prices let the oil companies produce more and prices will come down, more supply lowers prices our previous President proved that. I wasn't referring to the taxes that the corporations would be pocketing. The fact that suspending the taxes wouldn't have enough of an affect on the price of gas at the pump which I clearly indicated. The oil corporations be it Shell, Cheron, BP (whoever) would just do what they always do and ensure that the price per barrel "remains high" for as long as they can make it, and they do that by producing artificial shortages or use "natural disasters" as excuses to gouge people at the pump and raise the price per gallon. The problem is the corporations and the relationship they have had with the federal government and senators. The federal government is all to fast and willing to cut every possible tax break they can to companies like BP and Chevron so long as the lobbyists continue to line the pockets of senators and ensure their seat in congress for the next 30-50 years. That's one of the major problems, not removing the gas taxes. Will it help? Maybe? I don't know, but it's not going to make $6.00 a gallon drop to $3.50 a gallon. You might see a 25 cent drop in the price of gas at its current cost(at best). Even if the price per gallon dropped to $5.50....people would still be getting screwed at the pump and Oil CEOs would still be making billions not including their multi-million dollar bonuses they like to give themselves.