Each year, oil and gas companies receive billions in taxpayer dollars to keep our nation in bondage to OPEC and dependent on fossil fuels. As House Republicans seek to destroy Medicare as we know it in the name of deficit reduction, they are also doing everything they can to protect these giveaways to Big Oil.

I voted against the Republican Paul Ryan’s budget plan because it put corporations and special interests like Big Oil ahead of health care for seniors and a quality education for our children. I am also spearheading an investigation into whether Wall Street speculators and oil companies are driving up the price of oil by playing on supply fears in order to make a quick buck.

It is time to stand up Big Oil and end taxpayer-funded subsidies to these highly profitable oil and gas companies. Please join me today and sign my petition to let Congress know that you support eliminating tax subsidies for oil and gas companies.