strategic reserve, the market yawned, and attacking for not drilling enough, but also wants to put those companies out of business. they are at the white house and the president is not even going to meet with them. it is shocking, it s all p.r., that s what it is, sandra. by lowering the gas, by getting rid of the gas tax what you have done is encouraged demand and increase, totally opposed to their green agenda. it also hurts the highway funds as you know. it is p.r., it s a gimmick, all that. the only thing i do like this is it s a tax rate reduction rather than a spending increase. goodness knows what this guy does when he gets his hands on money, spends it like he can. but the real answer here is to get rid of the war on oil and gas, allow drilling to really occur, get rid of all the keystone pipeline restrictions, all that, and open up america for drilling again.
neil: all right. we still don t know whether the president will go with his idea of a federal gas tax holiday. 18.3 cents a gallon to help americans at the pump here, but he did seem to be tipping his hands. we re getting remarks at the vaccine summit saying a gas tax holiday would have some impact on highway funds. but not major. that gas fax funds a lot of that activity. if this comes to pass, it wouldn t turn everything upside-down. whether he will nix the federal gas tax holiday by the end of the week, we shall see. another session of the january 6th committee today gathering in washington and once again pointing the finger at the former president and things he said and to hear some tell it
At 23 cents a gallon, Hawai’i Island has one of the highest fuel tax rates in the state. One county councilmember is looking at legislation to bring that down. HPR's Sabrina Bodon has more.
make it required. using threat of holding federal funds from institutions. it has been done with highway funds, for states that did not lower their speed limit to 55. this has been dobb before. do youdo think we have to stop bribing americans with million dollar lotteries and saying if you don t get the vaccine, you can t come to the party, can t go to theth gym. can t go to the restaurant. good luck to tyou, stay your a home? you know, joy, back when the vaccines firsthe came out like, december, january, early on. where there s a lot of focus on making sure we address vaccine hesitatency, and were mindful of vulnerable groups who were mistreated, all of the completely legitimate. i believe it was the right thing to wait several months to do aggressive education and targeted education and just listening out to these vulnerablese communities. racially mistreated for deck