Bush 2000 Gas tax rollback never acted on -ok as he "never formally commit

I do enjoy the humor at the Wash Post today :

"A White House spokesman confirmed that Bush has not sought any rollback in the gas tax but said Bush never formally committed to the proposal."

And was we are sold "President Bush brought optimism" by the WSJ, they seems to lack a desire to do a compare and contrast on gas plans, limiting themselves to complaining that (per Calmes and Fialka) "In his plan yesterday, Mr. Kerry promised energy independence in a decade, although incentives for hydrogen-based fuel, wind and solar power probably would take several decades to have effect, analysts say. Missing was a specific proposal, which he featured earlier in the campaign, to raise auto makers' fuel-efficiency standards for passenger-car fleets to an average 36 miles-per-gallon by 2015, from 27.5 mpg now, for an estimated savings of two million barrels of oil daily."