Originally posted by Stazi:
My main point is that I'm not satisfied to just go "Oh well I guess I'll just pay $3 a gallon and not question it"...to me it not fully justified. When I cam to the US 6 years ago gas for $0.98 a gallon and in 6 years it is not 3x that - tell me what intelligent person wouldn't question that??? Maybe I am not as heavily invested into the economic data available to fully appreciate the possible explanation for this price increase, but my engineering brain just say "somethig aint right here - let's find out why" which cause me to look at root-cause-analysis. I'm not happy about paying this price for gas and I want to know why...and the excuses I heard so far aren't "doing it" for me...



Well there's a war going on and the US is sabre-rattling Iran.

China is growing 10% every year, and more and more chinese want to drive. Same with India.

The US is selling more SUV's than ever before and mileage ratings aren't getting better.

Chad, Congo, Venezuela are in very precarious political situations.

Basically supply could at the drop of a hat, be severely cut and that's why the price is so high.