$100 Gop Gas Rebate Plan Backfires Tremendously

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By CARL HULSE
Published: May 2, 2006

WASHINGTON, May 2 ?- A Republican proposal to provide taxpayers with a $100 rebate to compensate for higher fuel prices appeared all but dead today as leading congressional Republicans said it had quickly run out of gas.

"I just think that trying to satisfy voters with a $100 voucher is insulting," said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House majority leader. "Over the weekend, I heard about it from my constituents a few times. They thought it was stupid."

Other Republicans in the House and Senate did not mince words either.

"It was a silly idea," said Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, a member of the Republican leadership, who predicted that the rebate would not be in the final energy package when it reaches the floor.

Coming after Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, announced Monday that he was dropping a broad tax proposal from the leadership's eight-point package of energy initiatives, the resistance to the rebate meant that two core elements of the plan were either off the table or teetering on life support.

As a result, Republicans will have to regroup on energy legislation while they are under steady political attack from Democrats who say the ties between Republicans and the oil industry have contributed to rising prices at the pump. The harsh reaction to the rebate was also a setback for Mr. Frist, who led the rollout last week of the energy plan and defended it during a morning interview on CBS.

"We have to do this short-term rebate of $100 per person," said Mr. Frist, who acknowledged there is no "silver bullet' to the gas price crunch. "That's the federal taxes that are paid over the course of a year per person on average."

Even as they distanced themselves from the rebate, Republicans sought to show voters they were taking the escalating gas prices seriously. Speaker J. Dennis Hastert met privately today with Rex Tillerson, the head of ExxonMobil, and House Republicans were planning to consider two pieces of legislation on Wednesday to outlaw price gouging and spur new refinery capacity.

Mr. Hastert said Republicans wanted to make certain Americans were not victims of price manipulation but he said that current increases appear "disconnected from supply and demand. We need to know why that is happening," he said.