Will House Dems Continue Voting to Keep “Commonsense Plan” to Lower Gas Prices Under Wraps?
House Republicans to Force More Votes Today to Demand that Speaker Pelosi Finally Unveil Her “Commonsense Plan” to Bring Down Gas Prices Washington, May 7, 2008 – More than two years after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promised the American people she and her Democratic colleagues would help them deal with the price at the pump, she has yet to reveal her “commonsense plan” to lower gas prices or the “real solutions that will lower the price at the pump.” On January 4, 2007, the day that Rep. Pelosi became Speaker, the American people were paying an average of $2.33 per gallon for gasoline. Sixteen months later the American people are shelling out an average $3.62 per gallon – a whopping $1.29 more than the day she took the gavel. And her vaunted “commonsense plan” still remains a secret. This $1.29 Pelosi Premium is stretching family budgets, hurting small businesses, and forcing communities from coast to coast to cut critical services such as school bus transportation and law enforcemen
