WASHINGTON - APRIL 24: (R-L) Kevin Book, senior analyst for energy policy and oil & alternative energy at the Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company; Dave Berry, vice president of the Swift Transportation Company and chairman of the American Trucking Association's Energy and Environment Policy Committee; Mark Cooper, director of research at the Consumer Federation of America; and Melanie Kenderdine, associate director for strategic planning for the MIT Energy Initiative testify before a House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing entitled 'Pumping up Prices: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Record Gas Prices' at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 24, 2008 in Washington, DC. Getty Images logo Getty Images 19 months ago

WASHINGTON - APRIL 24: (R-L) Kevin Book, senior analyst for energy policy and oil & alternative energy at the Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company; Dave Berry, vice president of the Swift Transportation Company and chairman of the American Trucking Association's Energy and Environment Policy Committee; Mark Cooper, director of research at the Consumer Federation of America; and Melanie Kenderdine, associate director for strategic planning for the MIT Energy Initiative testify before a House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing entitled 'Pumping up Prices: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Record Gas Prices' at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 24, 2008 in Washington, DC.

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