How High Must the Cost of Gas Climb?
April 29, 2008
‘Americans should ask how high gas prices must rise before the Democrat leadership will abandon their proposals to raise taxes on consumers at the pump’
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Tuesday regarding the skyrocketing price of gasoline and the Democrat leadership’s yet-to-be-unveiled ‘commonsense plan’ to lower gas prices:
“As Americans continue to pay higher and higher prices at the pump, the Democrat leadership has yet to reveal their ‘commonsense plan’ to lower gas prices. When they took control of Congress in 2007 the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $2.33. Today, it is $3.61.
“The American people should ask the Democrat leadership how high the price of gas must rise before they reveal this ‘commonsense plan,’ and how high the price of gas must reach before they allow consideration of Republican proposals to make the United States less reliant on foreign oil by adding domestic supply, which will lower prices. Americans should ask how high gas prices must rise before the Democrat leadership will abandon their proposals to raise taxes on consumers at the pump—their only response to these increasing prices so far.”
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Background
According to the AAA, the current average price of gasoline is $3.61.