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McCain: It doesn't matter that I don't know cost of gas
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Published: Sunday June 29, 2008
Senator John McCain said he can't remember the last time he pumped
gasoline or the cost of a gallon of a gas in an interview with the
Orange County Register earlier this week.
The OC Register's Martin Wisckol asked McCain when he had last pumped
his own gas, to which McCain replied:
"Oh, I don’t remember. Now there’s Secret Service protection. But I’ve
done it for many, many years. I don’t recall and frankly, I don’t see
how it matters," McCain said.
The following is an excerpt from his interview with Wisckol:
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WISCKOL: Under your presidency, can you offer any ideas on what we’ll
be paying for gas in two years?
MCCAIN: It’ll be less because we will have been moving forward with
measures to become oil independent – independent of foreign oil. I’m
very confident that the American people can do it.
We didn’t get into this situation we’re in yesterday. So we’re not
going to get out of it tomorrow. But Americans want a little relief.
That’s why I sup****t a gas-tax holiday. And if you don’t think it’s
im****tant to some people, ask someone who owns a couple of trucks and
is paying 24½ cents tax on every gallon of gas.
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The presidential candidate has proposed a controversial gas-tax
holiday because "Americans are hurting" and could use a "little
break," The Denver Post re****ted.
Rival Senator Obama doesn't sup****t the measure and New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg called it "about the dumbest thing I've heard in an
awful long time, from an economic point of view."
Although he may not know the exact price, McCain acknowledged that gas
prices could go even higher on NBC's The Today Show.
A full transcript of the interview is available on the Orange County
Register's Web site.
"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that
said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care.
It's not that im****tant. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
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