This via TPM:

I’ve just obtained a copy of another ad hitting Obama on the gas tax that Hillary just started airing in Indiana.

The last-minute ad, which went up late on the Friday before election day, says Hillary’s gas tax holiday would “save families $8 billion,” and adds: “Barack Obama says that’s just pennies.”

“He’d make you keep paying that tax, instead of big oil,” the ad continues.

Wow.

I mean, really. The gas tax idea has been almost universally exposed as petty pandering to voters, dangling money in their faces which evaporates before it gets to their pockets. Hillary refers to her “improved” version of McCain’s “gas tax holiday,” where she proposes paying for the tax cut by charging the oil companies with it. Therefore the claim that “He’d make you keep paying that tax, instead of big oil.”

Of course, it’s pure BS. Hillary is simply shifting the tax to an earlier point in the pipeline; do you really imagine that the oil companies won’t pass on the tax hike to consumers? It is doubtful that there would even be a hiccup in prices at the pump. The tax would still be there, and you would still be paying for it. Even pro-Clinton Paul Krugman is with Obama on this one.

What’s worse, Hillary is lying about Obama with her numbers. Obama pointed out that in total, Americans would save no more than $30 total, assuming the “gas tax holiday” would work to full effect, which of course it will not. Hillary, who chides Obama for (correctly) pointing out that this comes out to just pennies a day, instead grandly claims that Americans will gain a windfall of eight billions dollars! Wow! That’s a lot! Until you divide that number by the number of Americans, when it comes out to being… $30. She’s calling Obama a liar because he’s claiming her tax cut, if it even worked, would net Americans the exact same amount of money she is claiming it will.

Hillary is testing an idea: are the voters in Indiana complete morons who will vote for anyone who promises a tax cut, no matter how obviously false the promise is? Unfortunately, she could be right in her assumption.

The ball’s in your court, Indiana: lying panderer, or truth teller? You decide.