20% of the world's oil goes through there or did go through there every single day. And that's the reason why we have spiking gas prices. You know, right now I've got a piece of legislation to try to deal with this issue to bring down those gas prices by suspending the federal gas tax. But even that is, I mean, it's a positive step, but the American people can't afford this. You know, we talked about that legislation you introduced to pause $0.18 tax on gas on the federal side up until October. (01:39–01:48)
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Asserts that he has introduced legislation to suspend the federal gas tax to reduce gas prices.
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