How and why gas is priced like it is.

[HPF Bob]

The causes:

1) weakened U.S. dollar
2) increased demand, particularly in Asia, raising crude oil price
3) U.S. stupidity toward oil/gas drilling/refining/remixing.

Fix any one of these three problems and the price or oil would plummet.But it seems most politicians would rather demonize "big oil" than do anything to actually fix the problem.