can't stand the free ride big oil gets, as though these prices are someone else's fault - who markets and sells the stuff all over the world? They do, and they can influence the price at all levels due to vertical integration; they blame it also on lack of off-shore drilling, but they were given huge bonanzas during the Carter and Reagan years, allowed to drill as much they wanted, and they robbed us with deals that permitted a basic fee for rights and low royalties for oil that was on PUBLIC land - instead of the other way around, which would have been more equitable, considering that the stuff belongs to the earth, is a natural resource, and that any related proifits should go back to the peope who live here -