There is definitely something wrong and it's a combination of things, but what it is not is a royal screwing by the oil companies here in the US. Congress has looked at this before and found nothing and there has been TONS of oversight in the energy industry since Enron came tumbling down( Sarbanks Oxley compliance has been a Hell of a meal-ticket for me); let's just say that most companies messing with electricity, gas, oil and other energy sources have been walking around on tiptoes for some time now. The US media is spouting ignorance and well over half the population is buying into it and letting anger instead of logic rule the day; oil and gas company exec's aren't idiots and they realize that any further uplifts in price that they realize in processing, delivery, exploration, extraction, etc., etc. (which will usually be reflected in the price at the pump) will have to be backed with SOUND and IRONCLAD financial reasoning.
The fact is that most of the reason the price has currently gone up are for reasons outside of their control.
