Obama On The Gas Tax Pause

Here is Barack Obama's response to Hillary Clinton's ad on a gas tax pause. You can tell by the text that it was shot on the road within the past two days. It's expensive -- 60 seconds -- and will run in rotation in both Indiana and North Carolina.

“I’m here to tell you the truth. We could suspend the gas tax for 6 months, but that’s not going to bring down gas prices long-term. You’re gonna save about 25, 30 dollars…or half a tank of gas. That’s typical of how Washington works. There’s a problem, everybody’s upset about gas prices – let’s find some short-term, quick-fix, that we can say we did something even though, even though we’re not really doing anything. We cannot deliver on a better energy policy unless we change how business is done in Washington. We’ve got to go out to the oil companies and look at their price-gouging. We’ve got to start using less oil and that means raising fuel efficiency standards on cars and developing alternative fuels. That’s the real honest answer to how we’re going to solve this problem. That’s what you need from a President someone who’s going to tell you the truth.”