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Originally Posted by David Kelly
For those of you planning on driving to Atlanta, use this calculator to calculate how much money you will be saving without the $.50 gas tax hike proposed by John Kerry. 
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I'm riding the bus to Atlanta, but, out of curiosity, I checked out the Bush calculator. This is what I found:
1) My car, a VW Jetta TDI wagon was not listed. Maybe it gets too good of mileage?
2) You have to have a street address, not just a city and state to get a calculation, requiring that you look up an address at your destination, even to get an approximate calculation.
Using Yahoo Maps to get the distance, and a regular calculator, here is what an extra 50 cents a gallon would cost me if I drove:
506 miles/45mpg=11.24 gallons each way, or $5.62 more money if fuel went up 50c/gallon. That's $11.24 for the round trip. The 45mpg is what I get driving at around 75mph on the highway.
Or course, the reality of Kerry's gas tax proposal is that it was basically made up by the Bush campaign. Here is a summery which I found at
http://infopunks.net/
"As we've noted before , Kerry's support for a 50-cent-a-gallon increase in the gasoline tax happened a decade ago, back when regular was selling for a national average of $1.01 per gallon. Kerry's support was so fleeting that the only evidence of it to surface so far are two old newspaper clips in which Kerry complains that he deserved more credit as a deficit-cutter. He never voted for, or sponsored, legislation to impose such a tax, and he doesn't support one now, when the price is just under $1.76."