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blog post
May 2, 2008
Various media reports are incorrectly attributing to CBO a figure (that the average driver would save about $30 this summer) associated with a gas tax holiday. CBO has not published such a figure and the citations to CBO are inaccurate.
This misattribution raises a larger point. CBO is a nonpartisan organization, and we are not in the business of scoring or evaluating campaign proposals. In some cases, CBO may have previously estimated or evaluated a proposal similar to one subsequently proposed in a campaignand those estimates generally are available on our website.
The bottom line: If you read something suggesting that we have issued numbers or an analysis about a campaign proposal, you should be skeptical -- and also let us know.