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PRESS ADVISORY

GASOLINE PRICES SKYROCKETING:
Experts to Discuss How Bush-Cheney Energy Plan Would Increase Prices at the Pump

    WHAT: As consumers pay record prices at the pump and the Energy Information Administration prepares to release its summer driving outlook for 2004, consumer advocates will refute claims that passing the disastrous energy bill rejected by the Senate in November would reduce gasoline prices.

    The Bush administration and some in Congress have claimed that the problem of rising gas prices would have been addressed by the energy plan that the Senate rejected in November. Meanwhile, the Energy Information Administration has projected that gas prices would actually increase under the energy bill.

    WHO:
      Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General (invited)
      Anna Aurilio, U.S. PIRG Legislative Director
      Mark Cooper*, Consumer Federation of America Director of Research
      Adam Goldberg, Consumers Union Policy Analyst
      Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program Research Director

    Mr. Cooper is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights hearing on gas prices on Wednesday afternoon.

    WHEN: Wednesday, April 7th, 10 AM

    WHERE: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building
A light breakfast will be served.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jen Mueller, Anna Aurilio, U.S. PIRG, 202-546-9707

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