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Jeff Duncan: “Gas prices are now over $4 a gallon and may be headed higher. Almost all environmental radicals come from very wealthy…”

On the recordMay 20, 2008
Gas prices are now over $4 a gallon and may be headed higher. Almost all environmental radicals come from very wealthy or very upper income families. Environmentalists apparently want gas to go even higher so people will drive less. Well, maybe these wealthy environmentalists can afford $5 a gallon gas, but many poor and lower income and working people are already hurting. Week before last we heard that 935 trucking companies have gone out of business in the first quarter of this year. We can produce oil now in environmentally safe ways, and we don't have to produce all of our oil. But if we don't start producing a little more, and soon, we're going to become even more vulnerable to foreign oil producers, and we're going to hurt many working people in the process.
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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Addressing rising gas prices and their impact on working people.

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