Obviously the extra $2 a gallon you were paying all summer long was pure profit for the oil companies!

It's not like they all of a sudden discivered a huge oil deposit. It's disgusting, and why there NEEDS to be some sort of government oversight of oil industry pricing.

After Katrina they said "oil production was affected", and thus the era of >$3 gas ensued. Katrina went away, but there was no impetus for them to lower the prices. Every bomb that went off in Iraq caused another "reason" for gas prices to escalate, again with no reason to lower them. People bitched and moaned, but they still went to the pumps. Next thing you know we were at over $4 a gallon.