Gas Price Petition

I signed my name on this petition, and I'm hoping that you will please, please, please do the same. It is not for just Wisconsin residents, but for everyone. Yes, Governor Doyle represents Wisconsin, but in this effort he's representing everyone. Please take the time to sign your name in an effort to try and make a difference. Thanks!

Dear Friends:

Thank you for signing our petition to President Bush asking him to cap excessive oil profits and lower these ridiculous gas prices. I am pleased to report that since I launched this petition on May 1, more than 93,000 citizens have signed on and over 90 percent have been from Wisconsin. But we're not done yet.

Middle class families are getting squeezed at the pump, while oil companies are reaping billions in record-setting profits. Wisconsin citizens deserve a refund on what we've overpaid. The President and leaders in Congress should cap oil company profits - and while they're at it, they should eliminate $10 billion in taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies.

I've asked every family in Wisconsin who is getting squeezed by these ridiculous prices to sign our petition at www.lowergasprices.wi.gov .

In the coming days we will send our petition directly to President Bush and ask him to take decisive action to provide relief. But before we do that, I need your help.

Please forward our petition on to as many of your friends and families as possible.

We have done a lot in Wisconsin to make life more affordable in Wisconsin and lower the cost of gasoline by ending the state's automatic gas tax increase, opposing the minimum markup law on gasoline, and fighting hard to increase use of ethanol throughout our state.

But the President and Congress have not acted. They have stood by, while gas prices have gone through the roof. We need to send a clear message to Washington and to the boardrooms of the big oil companies that these excessive profits have got to stop. Tell your friends and family to go to www.lowergasprices.wi.gov to sign the petition today.

Thank you for your help in forwarding this message along. Please contact my office in the future any time I can be of help to you.

Sincerely,

Jim Doyle, Governor