- Kate Sheppard, Mother JonesLink to Inhofe EPW Press Blog
Here's a fabulous sneak peek into the climate bill negotiations. Yesterday Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) attempted to squash the idea he and his colleagues have ever contemplated including a gas tax in the climate bill. "There is no gas tax, never was a gas tax, will not be a gas tax, I don't know where that came from, but it is just wrong. Period," he told reporters. "There is not even a linked fee, there is not a tax, there is nothing similar."