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For Immediate Release Rhoades Urges Congress to Enact Federal Home Heating Fuel Price Controls
HARRISBURG – Taking his effort to provide relief from the rising costs of gas and home heating fuel to Washington, D.C., Senator James J. Rhoades (R-29) today introduced a Senate resolution urging the Congress to do its part by enacting price controls at the federal level. "The cost of gas and home heating fuel is a national crisis and we need the Congress to help us solve it,” Rhoades said. “Controlling the price of fuel at the source, at the suppliers’ level, it an important part of the solution. “To get that done, Congress needs to act.” The resolution is the third in a series of initiatives Rhoades has introduced to deal with the home heating crisis. In the last ten days, he has introduced legislation to freeze fuel prices in Pennsylvania and to provide $84 million in home heating rebates to senior citizens and other needy Pennsylvanians. Rhoades emphasized that his resolution is aimed at reminding the Congress that controlling price increases from suppliers is a federal issue over which the Pennsylvania General Assembly does not have jurisdiction. He also pointed out that energy suppliers earned $228 billion in profits between 2001 and 2005. “If this is something that we could do here in Harrisburg, I would be doing it,” Rhoades said. “But this is a federal question and the Congress needs to answer it. “I will be speaking out about this until something gets done. We need to give the people the help they need – right now. As long as I am a senator, I don’t want a single Pennsylvanian to be left out in the cold.”
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