You missed my point entirely. I don't have an issue so much as far as paying for roads, and so on. I have an issue with her lack of logic, or her flat out mis-representing the situation.


"Our oil companies are getting all the profit and leaving us with the bill. We can do better," Gregoire says in the speech. Translation: They're getting rich so support me and together we'll screw them. (As she laughs to herself, "I bet they'll fall for that.") Am I reading that wrong?

Do you see anything illogical here in her statement above? Do you honestly, in your heart of hearts think that this additional gas tax of 3.6 cents per gallon (a barrel is 42 US gallons) will impact the oil refiner's bottom line? The effective tax downstreamed to the consumer will go from about $0.375 cents a gallon to over $0.41. She is selling it completely differently, and is being rather disingenuous about it.

Who really is going to pay this bill? You and I will. Why not just say that?