Are you upset enough with high gas prices to do something about it?  Thousands of people across Ohio are protesting fuel costs, and today, many of them came to the valley.  These 25 protesters from Mahoning and Trumbull County stood outside the Shell Station in Girard, echoing the valley's frustration over sky-high gas prices.

Joanne Johntony, Co-Organizer;  "This valley has suffered too many times with unemployment, and so we as a labor union are saying that enough is enough and we're gonna go out and fight to try and get them to reduce gas cost."

The weekly jump in gas prices is hitting the blue collar worker hard in the pocketbook.

Janet Bernard of Youngstown;  "Employees in the area want people to lower their wages. They're going to work now for a gallon of gas, a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, just can't keep happening."

And for those in the airline industry, rising fuel costs spell out financial loss and mounting layoffs.

J.D. Williams, United Airlines Pilot;  "At this stage of the game with the rising oil prices, we have difficulty meeting our costs, so our losses continue to mount, ultimately the consumer is the one that suffers."

But can anything be done about it on a local level?  State Senator Capri Cafaro sponsored a bill last year to help hold oil companies accountable for their actions. "Having to have them report a fluctuation in gas prices over ten cents to the department of commerce....Establish a study commission to determine why there's such increases in gas prices and should there be a result showing that there's actually price gouging."}

But the effort has gone unnoticed.

Senator Cafaro;  "We've not been successful in getting any hearings down in the Ohio senate which has really been sad and quite shocking."

The group says the fight will continue on until consumers get some sort price break at the pump.