2007-03-31 18:48:03 -

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich will hold a press conference at 5 p.m. PDT Saturday, March 31, 2007 at Union Square in San Francisco, Calif., to discuss rapidly escalating gasoline prices across the country, and in the San Francisco Bay area in particular.

Kucinich will address the matter of how the current instability in the Middle East is affecting gasoline prices, how price increases in the San Francisco Bay area and other parts of California are running proportionally higher than in other

parts of the country, and how the federal government could intervene to protect consumers.

The Ohio Congressman will also discuss how a windfall profit tax on the oil companies could buffer the effects of price spikes such as the one California is now experiencing.

Union Square in San Francisco is the block bordered by Stockton, Geary, Powell and Post Streets. It is three blocks north of the Powell St BART/MUNI station and four blocks west of the Montgomery Street BART/MUNI station.

Source: Kucinich for President 2008