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Obama hits out at oil giants over high pump prices

US President Barack Obama called on Congress on Tuesday to cut $4 billion in subsidies to profit-churning oil firms, as higher gasoline prices squeeze families and harm his political prospects.

"We have got a real problem here. Families day-to-day, they are driving to work. They are just watching their pay cheques get whittled away. They need some relief," Obama told WXYZ television, Detroit.

The president wrote to Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, calling on them to "eliminate unwarranted tax breaks" to the oil and gas industry and to reinvest in clean energy to cut US dependence on foreign oil.

Republicans countered that Obama's budget prescriptions

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