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We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.