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The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

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.

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.