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PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wisconsin -- With the start of the summer season on Monday, so to begins the season of exorbitant, annual gasoline price hikes across America. And Marge Krupp, the Democratic Candidate for Wisconsin's First Congressional District, asks what her opponent has done to help district voters stave off rising prices and keep the gas prices within the limits of a working family's pocketbook. "My opponent has not taken a credible stand on the rise in fuel costs, and the predicted rise in fuel costs over the summer season," says Krupp, "because he receives thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the same oil companies making billions of dollars of profits." According to FEC filings, Ryan received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from international oil companies, like Exxon-Mobil, during his decade-long tenure in Congress.
"Paul Ryan's relative silence on this issue speaks volumes about where his focus is," proclaimed Krupp, "it is on being re-elected and not about helping working families in this district." Consumers in Southeast Wisconsin have been feeling the pinch of high gas prices in recent months, with no end in sight. At press time, the average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline in the Kenosha-Racine area stands at $4.09/Gallon and holds at $3.93/Gallon in Janesville. Truckers, also feeling the strain of higher costs at the pump, are dealing with $4.79 for gallon of diesel gas in Southeast Wisconsin.
Krupp also noted her opponent's vote against an increase in oil company taxes in the most recent energy bill, citing it as "a vote for those wish to make the rich richer and working families poorer."
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* Ryan voted NO on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jan 2007)
* Rated ZERO% by the Campaign For America's Future (CAF), indicating opposition to energy independence. (Dec 2006)
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