Grist: Remember that time the George W. Bush administration tried to sneak a new gas tax onto the books and sort of succeeded?
You probably dont, because not even those fighting over this measure in Congress understood what was going on. As far as I can tell, the only person who knows the full story is Hanna Breetz, a political scientist at Arizona State University who wrote a dissertation on U.S. alternative fuel policy back in 2012. Its a dissertation that - mirabile dictu - broke news. But, because...