Gas Prices Resource Page

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Gas Prices Resource Page

High gas prices are pinching the pockets of consumers and business alike. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita brought our nation's energy crisis to the forefront of public policy last year. These storms shut down a significant portion of our domestic energy supplies and infrastructure, leading to the first extreme price hikes our nation has seen in a long time. However, gas prices had been escalating several months prior to those events and Americans are once again seeing record high prices at the pump today. There are several reasons for high gas prices, ranging from tight global supply, to a lack of adequate refining capacity preventing us from turning oil into enough gasoline, to specialty fuels that have proliferated due to government regulation, to our dangerous reliance on foreign oil. Government must take bold steps to address these problems, as well as ensuring consumers are protected from those who may wish to take advantage of Americans through price gouging or other market manipulations.

This page provides a comprehensive resource for learning about the factors affecting high gasoline prices, what government has done to address the problem and what it will do in the future. The page also provides additional consumer information, such as how to report price gouging, where to find the cheapest gasoline in your neighborhood and what steps consumers can take to conserve fuel and energy in general. Additionally, failure to address America's energy problems decades ago have made natural gas and home heating oil prices a significant cause for concern. This page details measures government has taken and steps consumers can take at home to address escalating natural gas and home heating oil prices.

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