As average gas prices again increased overnight to a record high, Kay Hagan’s U.S. Senate Campaign released the following statement.

“Another day, another record shattered, as working families continue to see no end in sight to increasing gas prices across the country. To ask an ordinary Americans to pay an average of $4.08 per gallon of gas, while Republicans continue to give big oil and gas billions and billions in tax breaks and subsidies, is nothing short of highway robbery,” said campaign Communications Director Colleen Flanagan. “Gas was $1.52 per gallon on average when Elizabeth Dole took office in January 2003. Just last week she voted against a bill that would have redirected tax incentives for Big Oil and Gas towards clean energy entrepreneurs and imposed a windfall tax on their record profits, and yet she expects North Carolinians to give her another six years in the Senate? In 2006, Elizabeth Dole was chair of the committee charged with electing Republicans to the Senate and she failed because she and her colleagues refused to acknowledge that working families not only have a voice, but they have a vote. In 2008, she is on track to fail again, this time in her own re-election bid.”