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Mr. Speaker, after months of record-breaking gasoline prices, the pocketbooks
of America's working families are hurting. Rising gas prices mean working
families have less money to spend on important items, such as clothing
and groceries, a factor that hurts our overall economy as well as individual
families. Family vacations are being canceled.
Today, the average price of a gallon of gas in the United States is
$2.10, but in Iraq the cost of one gallon of gasoline is only 5 cents.
It only costs $1.10 to fill up a 22-gallon tank in Baghdad.
Americans deserve to know why their gas prices are soaring out of control,
and, just as importantly, Americans need a solution. It is time to pass
a real, meaningful, common sense, comprehensive energy policy and bring
down the high cost of gasoline for America's working families.
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PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF
THE 108th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
