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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 16:22 |
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell knows what we all know. Gas prices are the big issue in America. He says the cost of filling up your tank is "off the charts" as the most important issue to voters. McConnell faces a challenge for re-election from Democrat Bruce Lunsford this fall and he says he's not using the issue to his political gain. "Nobody manufactured this issue to come up during the election year," McConnell told Action News 36 after a speech in Lexington Tuesday. "It came up during the election year and people expect us to address it."
McConnell spoke to around 300 business, civic and political leaders at the Commerce Lexington Public Affairs Luncheon Tuesday. He touted the Gas Price Reduction Act he is a co-sponsor of as a way to address both production and conservation issues. "We need to find more, we also need to use less," McConnell said of our country's petroleum use.
McConnell supports giving states the option of allowing off shore drilling 50 miles or more beyond their coast lines. "As you all probably know in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas they think oil rigs are pretty." McConnell says the act also calls for major incentives to entice auto makers to produce battery driven cars.
The Senate Minority leader also told the audience the war in Iraq will "probably" be a less significant issue in this fall's election because of the recent success of the troop surge. "The surge has been an unqualified success," claimed McConnell. "Violence is dramatically down."
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