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Cheapest way to generate electricity. So of couse industry is opposed

TL;DR: no. The tariffs + refund serve as a way to jack up prices and transfer money from consumers to businesses.

Facilities tied to Coca-Cola, Cargill, Mondelez and others appear to have been deliberately hit. The Trump administration’s muted response has raised concerns.

Facilities tied to Coca-Cola, Cargill, Mondelez and others appear to have been deliberately hit. The Trump administration’s muted response has raised concerns.

A suspension of the tax would not necessarily mean a gallon would cost 18.4 cents less for drivers.

The fuel is generally taxed at a terminal before it’s distributed to gas stations, which makes it easier for the federal government to collect.

If drivers see any relief, “it’s going to have to be because that producer is then reducing the price that it charges to the gas station,” said Michael Negron, an economics fellow at the Center for American Progress, a research group.

Basically, a gas tax holiday gives money to the oil companies, not to drivers.

Given how oil and gas are traded globally traded, the fact that the US extracts more oil from the ground than it burns doesn't keep prices from rising. Only real insulation from this is to end the need to burn the stuff - that means bikes, ebikes, mass transit, and electric cars.

A suspension of the tax would not necessarily mean a gallon would cost 18.4 cents less for drivers.

The fuel is generally taxed at a terminal before it’s distributed to gas stations, which makes it easier for the federal government to collect.

If drivers see any relief, “it’s going to have to be because that producer is then reducing the price that it charges to the gas station,” said Michael Negron, an economics fellow at the Center for American Progress, a research group.

Basically, a gas tax holiday gives money to the oil companies, not to drivers.

Given how oil and gas are traded globally traded, the fact that the US extracts more oil from the ground than it burns doesn't keep prices from rising. Only real insulation from this is to end the need to burn the stuff - that means bikes, ebikes, mass transit, and electric cars.

A new super PAC with ties to Republicans is intervening in Democratic primaries, in one instance helping a sex therapist in Texas accused of antisemitism.

The remora often latches on to the exteriors of larger marine creatures. But sometimes it travels in a more intrusive spot: inside a manta ray’s backside.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside his department, a sprawling research effort is a top priority.

Vaccines prevent what used to be a major cause of death among kids:

Memories of those days, among the most vivid of my early life, still evoke tremors in the bottom of my stomach. There was widespread fear of measles causing blindness, which had indeed happened to a young family acquaintance. So for several days at the height of her illness, Jane was quarantined in one bedroom while Helen moved in with Mimi and me. The shades were drawn and curtains closed in Jane’s room, and the door was opened only after the hallway was darkened. She survived—and later went on to become a wife, mother, and well-regarded artist. But that was just the luck of the draw. Measles killed some 10,000 American children in the 1930s and ’40s—roughly 500 kids died every year. In my generation, we were the guinea pigs for what science would soon discover: This pesky childhood sickness increases the risk of stroke, chronic lung problems, and impaired neurodevelopment.