We have an addiction problem. The unscrupulous Speculators are getting 140 a barrel. And unfortunately you can't just boycott one supplier to knock down the price. The only ways drop the price of oil are to 1) get more oil here ( this is a temp fix, folks) and 2) Large scale investment in advanced non-fossil based power sources. We've had nearly 40 years to develope fusion power, or a hydrogen infrastucture for fuel cell vehicles. Saddly this means that the current economic problems rel…ated to the price of oil are of our own making. Look at Brazil.... no imported oil there. Lets force those turkeys in Washington to stop subsodizing a 120 billion dollar private industry and take that part of the budget to get us past our addiction. More

Most of our trouble with gas comes from the competition with China and India for crude which they are consuming like a fat kid at a candy factory. For decades people have been against nuclear energy which could solve a huge percent of our energy problems especially northeastern heating costs. If we continue to rely on Saudi to keep us alive in OPEC then we will be in a real energy war, not a regime change war. Many of the reasons why the middle east is angry with the US stems from the PRIOR administration ripping them off for 8 years and delivering hollow promises.

I hope everyone gets a chance to read literature about the FairTax....its available on CD, too. Let's get rid of the abuse of our government tax program and start growing our culture again!

Damn i wish gas was that cheap down here

I think it's worked once in the past month or so. It just sits there saying, 'Retreiving data..'. Not sure what it is. I can goto the URL I've got plugged into this widget at gasbuddy.com and get the prices that way.