In interviews with The Epoch Times, energy industry insiders and economists expressed disagrement and disdain about the Biden administration’s proposed three-month gas tax holiday.
They joined a chorus of critical voices on both sides of the aisle after the president asked Congress to suspend that federal tax on June 22.
“It is a silly idea, which violates simple, basic economics,” said John Cochrane, Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, in a June 23 email interview with The Epoch Times.
“It is a sign of an administration in disarray that all they can come up with is this patently bad idea, in an effort to pander to voters,” he added….