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>> sandra: america's energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i'm sandra smith in new york. hi, john. >> john: i'm john roberts in washington and this is "america reports." the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the government b...

>> hannity: one simple thing they can do i don't know if most americans know this but for every gallon of gasoline we purchase the federal government gets $0.18.3 a gallon. one of the get rid of the gas tax to give americans especially poor americans, middle-class americans people with fixed incomes want to give them some kind of instant relief so the temporary band-aid packet into the strategic petroleum reserves the do that for a month to act doing something. >> it's kind of amazing sean that the democrats have never liked hikes and gas prices. there she tied about federal gas tax holiday pr...

>> the federal gas taxes and $0.18 per gallon. think about one-third of that was eaten up overnight by the natural price of gas. if your tank is 20 gallons, every time you fill up, and now cost you $1 more than it did yesterday. unbelievable. >> will: district police chief has stopped operating with the investigation into the massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. >> steve: i wonder why. the first funerals for the victim started yesterday is 10-year-old rodriguez and they are laid to rest. >> here with more. >> the first funerals are held including 10-year-old. the little girl b...

Vacation? this is the national average of gas prices. premium gas 5.29 a gallon. that's a national average. if you live in california because of the state gas tax, it's considerably higher. it's hard. if you go through the statistics the president cites in his op ed are all correct. the economy does have a lot of great strength under it, it's just people are getting hit in the head every day with this. >> it would not be a surprise if you saw a move in the next couple months as we get closer to election day for the administration to have what's called a national gas tax holiday which is $0.18 ...

Let's look at how bad canada's gun violence problem is, the country's rate of gun homicides per 100,000 is 0.5. that's less than a fifth of that in the us, at 4.12 but is still five times the level of australia, at 0.18 the canadian buyback plan is modelled on other efforts in the wake of national tragedies. the uk banned the private ownership of most handguns a year after the murder of 16 children in dunblane. it was the deadliest mass shooting in british history. australia banned nearly all semi—automatic rifles after a gunman murdered 35 people at port arthur, in 1996. a buy back scheme w...