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Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

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.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

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

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.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.