i have noticed a few people on here talking about the price of gas, and everywhere you go nowadays its a hot topic. well folks, thought i would let you all know that things could be worse. see right now oil is around $120 a barrel. for those that dont know, 1 barrel of oil is 42 gallons. right now it cost approximately $3.10 cents to refine 1 gallon of crude oil. add govt. taxes on top of that, and you will realize that $4.00 a gallon means NO profit at the pump for the gas companies, the ones we all blame. so really, things could be a lot worse than they are right now.
on a side note, with the uber-increase of oil consumption in china (about 400% in 3 years) no matter how many hybrids we drive or alternative fuels we burn, the price of oil will never come down!!!