Article: SEN. MENENDEZ SAYS PRESIDENT BUSH IGNORES OPTIONS TO HELP LOWER GAS PRICES IN SHORT TERM

The office of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., issued the following news release:

In a press conference today, President Bush dismissed measures to help lower gas prices in the short term, including a crackdown on unchecked oil speculation and diverting oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the marketplace. Instead, the president continued to tout a plan to drill up and down the U.S. coastlines, which wouldn't produce a drop of oil until 2017 and would never produce enough oil to make a difference for gas prices.

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a leading defender of the coastline and author of the COAST Act to permanently ban drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, responded to ...

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