White House's Top Economist Demanded Gas Tax Increase

It seems top White House economic adviser Greg Mankiw thinks that the best way to fix the sluggish economy is not only to outsource more U.S. jobs, but also to raise the gas tax. In his article entitled "Gas Tax Now!" Mankiw demands an increase in the gas tax.

I guess on gas tax policy, at least, Mankiw comes out of the Dick Cheney school of thinking - Cheney, you might remember, actually authored legislation in Congress that would have seriously increased the gas tax, "Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States."