“That 80% of Americans say we should stop buying Russian oil in the name of defending democracy proves the depth of our support for the Ukrainian people,” U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, said in a statement last week calling on both the state and federal governments to suspend gas taxes.

While “we support our friends in Ukraine in their fight for freedom,” he said, “we must also act to protect the pocketbooks of working-and-middle-class families here at home.”