What Can You Say About Gas Prices That Gone Up?

yes, I agree with methodles, it's because of increasing consumption of it, increase in no. of consumers, greedier companies, & even greedier government of oil producing countries since they both benefit from price increases.

There are a few problems causing higher oil prices. 1) Very easy to tax, the tax is hidden, and when asked about, it raises revenue for the government and works as an incentive to help the environment. 2) Greedier companies 3) Supply is not dwindling so much that we are running out, but supply is low enough that we are not extracting it fast enough. We simply can't get it out as fast as we end up using it, so prices must go up. 4) We are not as price sensitive as we say we are. I use as much gas as I did before, I just fill up less at a time hoping for a depressed price. (Then again I use very very little, so I can't cut back)

It's very true that it's a sad and costly thinh that gas prices has gone up but it's hard for me to understand how you guys in USA complain so much. I'm originally from Sweden and there you have you have to pay around 6dollars a gallon...That is expensive! But I can understand but if you're used to such a cheap price as 75cents a gallon then it must be really hard to cough up 3.15!